A Confederacy of Dunces

By John Kennedy Toole

Foreword Walker Percy

 Publication Information: Louisiana State University Press, Louisiana (1980).

Book Description: Hardcover book with strong straight boards and binding. Some callous person put their coffee cup on the dustjacket leaving an unfortunate ring behind. Pages unmarked and undamaged. Signed by Walker Percy on cover page.

About the book: A picaresque novel featuring the misadventures of protagonist Ignatius J. Reilly, a lazy, obese, misanthropic, self-styled scholar. He is an educated but slothful 30-year-old man living with his mother in the Uptown neighborhood of early-1960s New Orleans who, in his quest for employment, has various adventures with colorful French Quarter characters.

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