Deal: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
A Confederacy of Dunces
Written by: John Kennedy Toole
Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release Date:09-12-05
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Publisher’s Summary
“A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears themselves, stuck out on either side like turn signals indicating two directions at once.” So enters one of the most memorable characters in recent American fiction.The hero of John Kennedy Toole’s incomparable, Pulitzer Prize-winning comic classic is one Ignatius J. Reilly, “huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter”. His story bursts with wholly original characters, denizens of New Orleans’ lower depths, incredibly true-to-life dialogue, and the zaniest series of high and low comic adventures.
©1980 Thelma D. Toole; (P)1997 Blackstone Audiobooks
What the Critics Say
“Barrett Whitener strikes just the right note.” (AudioFile)
“A Confederacy of Dunces has been reviewed almost everywhere, and every reviewer has loved it. For once, everyone is right.” (Rolling Stone)
“What a delight, what a roaring, rollicking, footstomping wonder this book is! I laughed until my sides ached, and then I laughed on.” (Chicago Sun-Times)
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