A Confederacy of Dunces - Rilegato

Toole, John Kennedy

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0807126063 ISBN 13: 9780807126066

Casa editrice: Louisiana State Univ Pr, 2000

Riassunto

Released by Louisiana State University Press in April 1980, A Confederacy of Dunces is nothing short of a publishing phenomenon. Turned down by countless publishers and submitted by the author's mother years after his suicide, the book won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Today, there are over 1,500,000 copies in print worldwide in eighteen languages.
Set in New Orleans, A Confederacy of Dunces outswifts Swift, one of whose essays gives the book its title. As its characters burst into life, they leave the region and literature forever changed by their presences - Ignatius and his mother; Miss Trixie, the octogenarian assistant accountant at Levy Pants; inept, wan Patrolman Mancuso; Darlene, the Bourbon Street stripper with a penchant for poultry; Jones, the jivecat in space-age dark glasses. Satire and farce animate A Confederacy of Dunces; tragic awareness ennobles it.
Louisiana State University Press celebrates A Confederacy of Dunces' twentieth year with this anniversary edition, which includes a new introduction by Andrei Codrescu that examines the relationship of this modern-day classic to the city whose pulse it so brilliantly captures.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

John Kennedy Toole taught at Hunter College, the University of Southwestern Louisiana, and Dominican College.

Product Description:

Book by John Kennedy Toole

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Louisiana State Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0807126063
• ISBN 13: 9780807126066
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 338