description: This wildly inventive comic masterpiece exploded on the literary scene like a time bomb in 1980. The rest is publishing history. Critics and readers adored "A Confederacy of Dunces, " and the book went on to win the Pulitzer Prize. Now this wonderfully outrageous, hilariously funny novel is back in a new hardcover edition.
language: English
title: A Confederacy Of Dunces
titlecomplete: A Confederacy Of Dunces
characters: Burma Jones, Ignatius Jacques Reilly, Lana Lee, Irene Reilly, Angelo Mancuso, Santa Battaglia, Myrna Minkoff
genres: Fiction, American, Comedy, Humor, Literature, Classics, Novels, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Audiobook
ratings_count: 268893
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: Audio Literature