Confederacy of Dunces - Brossura

Toole, John Kennedy

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ISBN 10: 0802130208 ISBN 13: 9780802130204

Casa editrice: Grove Pr, 1994

Riassunto

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.

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Pulitzer Prize Winner

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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Book by Toole John Kennedy

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• Editore: Grove Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0802130208
• ISBN 13: 9780802130204
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 416