A Confederacy of Dunces.
by Toole, John Kennedy; Foreword by Walker Percy
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
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Palm Beach, Florida, United States
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Synopsis
A Confederacy of Dunces is a picaresque novel written by John Kennedy Toole, published in 1980, 11 years after the author's suicide. The book was published through the efforts of writer Walker Percy (who also contributed a revealing foreword) and Toole's mother Thelma Toole, quickly becoming a cult classic, and later a mainstream success. Toole posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981. It is now considered a canonical work of modern Southern literature.
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- Bookseller
- Raptis Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 144201
- Title
- A Confederacy of Dunces.
- Author
- Toole, John Kennedy; Foreword by Walker Percy
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Louisiana State University Press
- Place of Publication
- Baton Rouge
- Date Published
- 1980
- Keywords
- A Confederacy of Dunces First Edition
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