A Confederacy of Dunces:

Literature & Fiction

John Kennedy Toole

Literary

GROVE PRESS

In a dilapidated house on a hill outside town. David grows up shy and friendless: a reluctant outsider in the small-town Bible Belt of the 1940's. The God-fearing folk snub his family because
Poppa can't afford the church dues . Foul-breathed Mrs. Watkins of County Elementary School calls him a bad influence. And every night the preacher's neon Bible lights up - dominating the view from the hill just as the precher's meddlesome. bigoted brand of Christianity dominates the town. David's sole ally is Aunt Mae - magnificent, voluminous, yellow-haired Aunt Mae with her theatrical past, film start fantasies and outrageous gowns that (she tells David) have been lauded onstage from Charleston to New Orleans. 
John Kennedy Toole, whose comic masterpiece A Confederacy of Dunces won the Pulitzer Prize twelve years after his suicide at the age of 31. He wrote the Neon Bible when he was just 16. Suppressed for years by Toole's mother and the subject of a bitter legal wrangele among his heirs, it is now published in paperback for the first time.
162 pages

The Neon Bible

Contemporary

Penguin Books, Ltd.

A Confederacy of Dunces (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)

'When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him' - Jonathan Swift. A monument to sloth, rant and contempt, a behemoth of fat, flatulence and furious suspicion of anything modern - this is Ignatius J. Reilly of New Orleans, noble crusader against a world of dunces. In magnificent revolt against the twentieth century, Ignatius propels his monstrous bulk amongst the flesh-pots of a fallen city, documenting life on his Big Cief tablets as he goes - until his maroon-haired mother decrees that he must work.

A Confederacy of Dunces

Gardners Books

<p>The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged as well. Ignatius ignores them as he heaves his vast bulk through the city's fleshpots in a noble crusade against vice, modernity and ignorance. But his momma has a nasty surprise in store for him. Ignatius must get a job. Undaunted, he uses his new-found employment to further his mission and now he has a pirate costume and a hot-dog cart to do it with.</p>

Confederacy of Dunces

Penguin??Books

<p>The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged as well. Ignatius ignores them as he heaves his vast bulk through the city's fleshpots in a noble crusade against vice, modernity and ignorance. But his momma has a nasty surprise in store for him. Ignatius must get a job. Undaunted, he uses his new-found employment to further his mission - and now he has a pirate costume and a hot-dog cart to do it with ...</p>

A Confederacy of Dunces (Penguin Modern Classics)

Humor & Satire

Penguin Classics

A Confederacy of Dunces Lib/E

Barrett Whitener

Blackstone Publishing

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