It sold about 50,000 copies in hard cover and nearly 600,000 in paperback within three years of publication. He became entranced and decided that the novel was ''a major achievement, a huge comic-satiric-tragic one-of-a-kind rendering of life in New Orleans.'' After some more publishers rejected the book, Louisiana State University Press agreed to take a chance with a first printing of just 2,500 copies. Percy was a ''masterpiece.'' Percy agreed to read it. She was followed by a chauffeur carrying a manuscript that she told Mr.
The book's passage to success began in 1976 when John Kennedy Toole's mother Thelma, using a walker, hobbled into the office of the novelist Walker Percy at Loyola University. it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue" (The New York Times Book Review). Fawn Creek Township is in Montgomery County. Happy Indepdendent Bookstore Day Dumping Debt Rated: G (General Audience) See Customer Reviews Select Format Hardcover 3.99 - 24.21 Paperback 4.19 - 14.76 Mass Market Paperback 4.59 - 5.49 Library Binding 20. the novel astonishes with its inventiveness. Title: A Confederacy of Dunces: A Novel Format: Hardcover Product dimensions: 360 pages, 9.1 X 6.1 X 1.5 in Shipping dimensions: 360 pages, 9.1 X 6.1 X 1. Fawn Creek Township is located in Kansas with a population of 1,618. A Confederacy of Dunces book by John Kennedy Toole ReadingRewards: Earn 2x points sitewide. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Near fine in near fine first issue dust jacket.
Signed by Walker Percy on the title page, who wrote the foreword and upon his insistence had it published. Item Number: 89783īaton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980.įirst edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece. TOOLE, John Kennedy Foreword by Walker Percy.
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