John Kennedy Toole, a native of New Orleans, graduated from Tulane University and received a master's degree in English from Columbia University. He taught at Hunter College, the University of Southwestern Louisiana, and Dominican College in New Orleans. His only other novel, The Neon Bible, is also published by Grove Press.
Winner of the 1981 Pulitzer PrizeA LeVar Burton x Fable Book Club
Pick"A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness
. . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue."--The New York
Times Book Review "A corker, an epic comedy, a rumbling, roaring
avalanche of a book."--The Washington Post "An astonishingly good
novel, radiant with intelligence and artful high comedy."--Newsweek
"One of the funniest books ever written . . . it will make you
laugh out loud till your belly aches and your eyes water."--The New
Republic "The episodes explode one after the other like fireworks
on a stormy night. No doubt about it, this book is destined to
become a classic."--The Baltimore Sun "The dialogue is superbly
mad. You simply sweep along, unbelievably entranced."--The Boston
Globe "An astonishingly original and assured comic spree."--New
York Magazine "As hilarious as it indisputably is, A Confederacy of
Dunces is a serious and important work."-- Los Angeles Herald
Examiner "If a book's price is measured against the laughs it
provokes, A Confederacy of Dunces is the bargain of the year." --
Time "A brilliant and evocative novel." --San Francisco Chronicle
"I found myself laughing out loud again and again as I read this
ribald book." --Christian Science Monitor "Crazy magnificent
once-in-a-blue-moon first novel. . . . There is a touch of genius
about Toole and what he has created." --Publishers Weekly "A
masterpiece of character comedy . . . brilliant, relentless,
delicious, perhaps even classic." --Kirkus Reviews "Astonishing,
extravagant, lunatic, satiric, and peculiar, but it is above all
genuine, skillful, and unsentimentally comic." --Booklist Ignatius
J. Reilly is Bette Midler's favorite hero of fiction (Vanity Fair,
August 2008)
Winner of the 1981 Pulitzer PrizeA LeVar Burton x Fable Book Club
Pick"A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness
. . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue."--The New
York Times Book Review "A corker, an epic comedy, a rumbling,
roaring avalanche of a book."--The Washington Post "An
astonishingly good novel, radiant with intelligence and artful high
comedy."--Newsweek "One of the funniest books ever written . . . it
will make you laugh out loud till your belly aches and your eyes
water."--The New Republic "The episodes explode one after the other
like fireworks on a stormy night. No doubt about it, this book is
destined to become a classic."--The Baltimore Sun "The dialogue is
superbly mad. You simply sweep along, unbelievably entranced."--The
Boston Globe "An astonishingly original and assured comic
spree."--New York Magazine "As hilarious as it indisputably is, A
Confederacy of Dunces is a serious and important work."-- Los
Angeles Herald Examiner "If a book's price is measured against the
laughs it provokes, A Confederacy of Dunces is the bargain
of the year." -- Time "A brilliant and evocative novel." --San
Francisco Chronicle "I found myself laughing out loud again and
again as I read this ribald book." --Christian Science Monitor
"Crazy magnificent once-in-a-blue-moon first novel. . . . There is
a touch of genius about Toole and what he has created."
--Publishers Weekly "A masterpiece of character comedy . . .
brilliant, relentless, delicious, perhaps even classic." --Kirkus
Reviews "Astonishing, extravagant, lunatic, satiric, and peculiar,
but it is above all genuine, skillful, and unsentimentally comic."
--Booklist Ignatius J. Reilly is Bette Midler's favorite hero of
fiction (Vanity Fair, August 2008)
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