A Confederacy of Dunces

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)