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The pulitzer committee thought highly enough of tooles comic prowess to give his only novel the prize posthumously. A confederacy of dunces evergreen book paperback the. A confederacy of dunces is a picaresque novel by american novelist john kennedy toole which appeared in 1980, eleven years after tooles suicide. Not bad for a book rejected by many publishers before finally being published posthumously in 1980, probably due. Morbidly obese, slovenly, flatulent, more often than not extremely rude, yet highly educated and articulate, and at constant battle with modern society, its myriad perversions and the people living in it who dare commit egregious offenses against taste and decency. Dec 20, 2011 i recommended a confederacy of dunces to my father, and he really enjoyed it. Similar territory to the da vinci code but earlier, less balefully stupid and with. Find books like a confederacy of dunces from the worlds largest community of readers. Opinion a confederacy of dunces the new york times. Reilly, is huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latterday gargantua, a don quixote of the french quarter.
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