num_pages: 338
description: A spectacular, Pultizer Prize-winning novel by a master of comedy, beloved by readers and critics alike. The place is the French Quarter, the characters, denizens of New Orleans's lower depths.
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: Louisiana State University Press