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I reread the audiobook when i was traveling a lot a year or two ago. Published through the efforts of writer walker percy who also contributed a foreword and tooles mother, the book became first a cult classic, then a mainstream success. A confederacy of dunces is literally the worst book ive ever read. Dunces, while perhaps not what one would label a realist. Set in new orleans, the novel bursts into life on canal street under the clock at d.
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The pulitzer committee thought highly enough of tooles comic prowess to give his only novel the prize posthumously. A confederacy of dunces doesnt need to develop but it. Morbidly obese, slovenly, flatulent, more often than not extremely rude, yet highly educated and articulate, and at constant battle with modern society, its myriad perversions and the people living in it who dare commit egregious offenses against taste and decency. A confederacy of dunces the books the book club abc tv. Reilly, a 300pound waster who lives with his mother and spends his time belching, watching films, and penning frantic letters that lie unread. Jun 17, 2011 a confederacy of dunces by john kennedy toole, 9780241951590, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. John kennedy tooles novel took the prize in 1981, making it one of a small. Ok, so that last ones probably a given but the fact that john kennedy. Jun 06, 2017 a confederacy of dunces has won our vote of pulitzer prize winners and will be the reading group choice for june. Already he was polishing a few carefully worded accusations designed to reduce his mother to repentance or, at least, confusion somewhere in fantasyland, ignatius was dreaming of a terrified myrna minkoff being tried by a court of taste and decency and. A confederacy of dunces a confederacy of dunces audiobook, by john kennedy toole.
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