num_pages: 13
description: A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears themselves, stuck out on either side like turn signals indicating two directions at once. Full, pursed lips protruded beneath the bushy black moustache and, at their corners, sank into little folds filled with disapproval and potato chip crumbs.So enters one of the most memorable characters in recent American fiction.The hero of John Kennedy Toole's incomparable, Pultizer Prize-winning comic classic is one Ignatius J. Reilly, an obese, self-absorbed, hapless Don Quixote of the French Quarter, whose half-hearted attempts at employment lead to a series of wacky adventures among the lower denizens of New Orleans. This book has become an American comic masterpiece.
language: English
title: A Confederacy of Dunces
titlecomplete: A Confederacy of Dunces
characters: Myrna Minkoff, Burma Jones, Lana Lee, Angelo Mancuso, Irene Reilly, Santa Battaglia, Ignatius Jacques Reilly
genres: Audiobook, American, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Comedy, Classics, Fiction, Contemporary, Humor
ratings_count: 268865
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 Publishing