A Confederacy of Dunces
A Confederacy of Dunces
Paperback
Published:
10 March, 1994
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780802130204 |
| ISBN10 | 0802130208 |
| Number Of Pages | 416 |
| Item Weight | 455 g |
| Publisher / Reseller | Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press |
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 20th Anniversary ed. |
Media Reviews
Pulitzer Prize Winner
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
As hilarious as it indisputably is, A Confederacy of Dunces is a serious and important work. -- Los Angeles Herald Examiner
If a book's price is measured against the laughs it provokes, A Confederacy of Dunces is the bargain of the year. -- Time
A brilliant and evocative novel. --San Francisco Chronicle
I found myself laughing out loud again and again as I read this ribald book. --Christian Science Monitor
Crazy magnificent once-in-a-blue-moon first novel. . . . There is a touch of genius about Toole and what he has created. --Publishers Weekly
A masterpiece of character comedy . . . brilliant, relentless, delicious, perhaps even classic. --Kirkus Reviews
Astonishing, extravagant, lunatic, satiric, and peculiar, but it is above all genuine, skillful, and unsentimentally comic. --Booklist
Ignatius J. Reilly is Bette Midler's favorite hero of fiction (Vanity Fair, August 2008)