Details
Rent A Confederacy of Dunces (Evergreen Book)
Author:
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Pub Group West
Published: Jan 1994
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Retail Price: $17.00
Pages: 416
Synopsis
An obese New Orleans misanthrope who constantly rebukes society, Ignatius Reilly gets a job at his mother's urging but ends up leading a workers' revolt, in a twentieth anniversary edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Reprint.
by Anita Shreve
A brilliant and beautiful contemporary novel about love and memory from the author of the bestselling novels All He Ever Wanted and The Pilots...
by Ann-Marie MacDonald
...Ann-Marie MacDonald writes of several generations of a Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia family in this resonant first novel....Ms. MacDonald...
by Sara Gruen
Jacob Jankowski, 90 years old and living in a nursing home, tells how, orphaned and penniless during the Great Depression, he became an animal trainer...
Reviews
I had heard of this book for years but knew little about it. Nothing prepared me for its brilliance. Toole creates a completely real world around a fantastic anti-hero who somehow makes you root for him even as he insults probably everything you've ever held dear. The cast of characters are so many, so varied and so unique that you could people a half-dozen lesser novels and still have plenty left over. The category is 'humorous' but it's deeper than that and sometimes darker as you find yourself laughing almost in spite of yourself. This is a book to read once a year for the rest of your life. It's that classic.