A Confederacy of Dunces (Paperback)
Description
This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel has sold over three-quarters of a million copies and continues to earn critical acclaim. The story of one Ignatius J. Reilly, a "Don Quixote of the French Quarter", it is a masterpiece of human folly and tragedy.
Praise for A Confederacy of Dunces…
“A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue.”—The New York Times Book Review
“A corker, an epic comedy, a rumbling, roaring avalanche of a book.”—The Washington Post
“An astonishingly good novel, radiant with intelligence and artful high comedy.”—Newsweek
“One of the funniest books ever written . . . it will make you laugh out loud till your belly aches and your eyes water.”—The New Republic
“The episodes explode one after the other like fireworks on a stormy night. No doubt about it, this book is destined to become a classic.”—The Baltimore Sun
“The dialogue is superbly mad. You simply sweep along, unbelievably entranced.”—The Boston Globe
“An astonishingly original and assured comic spree.”—New York Magazine
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