Cover of A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, Walker Percy

A Confederacy of Dunces

by John Kennedy Toole, Walker Percy

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★★★★3.9(170,776 ratings)

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A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head.

A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero is one Ignatius J. Reilly, "huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter. His story bursts with wholly original characters, denizens of New Orleans' lower depths, incredibly true-to-life dialogue, and the zaniest series of high and low comic adventures."

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