A Confederacy of Dunces (35th Anniversary Edition)

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After more than three decades, the peerless wit and indulgent absurdity of A Confederacy of Dunces continues to attract new readers. Though the manuscript was rejected by many publishers during Toole's lifetime, his mother successfully published the book years after her son's suicide, and it won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. This literary underdog and comic masterpiece has sold more than two million copies in twenty-three languages.



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Jesse Williams F*cking funny, vivid, and adventurous. Sometimes that’s what we need. (Source)

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