A confederacy of dunces /

Toole, John Kennedy, 1937-1969.

A confederacy of dunces / John Kennedy Toole ; with a foreword by Walker Percy ; and a new introduction by Andrei Codrescu. - 20th anniversary ed. - Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2000. - xiii, 338 p. ; 24 cm.

Originally published: 1980.

This anniversary edition of the classic novel that won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for fiction features a Foreword by Walker Percy that looks back on the history of this humorous story set in New Orleans about around a slob named Ignatius Reilly and his relationship with his mother.

0807126063 (anniversary ed.) 9780807126066 (anniversary ed.) 0807126071 9780807126073




Mothers and sons--Fiction.
Young men--Fiction.


New Orleans (La.)--Fiction.


Humorous fiction.

PS3570.O54 / C66*

813.54