description: Ignatius J. Reilly, a self-proclaimed genius out to reform the entire 20th century, is pushed out of the nest and into the working world.
language: English
title: A Confederacy of Dunces
titlecomplete: A Confederacy of Dunces
characters: Santa Battaglia, Angelo Mancuso, Irene Reilly, Myrna Minkoff, Ignatius Jacques Reilly, Burma Jones, Lana Lee
genres: Classics, Comedy, American, Humor, Novels, Audiobook, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 268868
places: New Orleans, Louisiana
awards: awardedAt: 347184000000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 347184000000
name: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, awardedAt: 315561600000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Blackstone Pub