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A Confederacy Of Dunces ByJohn Kennedy Toole SIGNED-Author’s Mother Thelma Toole

Description: - Book: A Confederacy of Dunces - Author: John Kennedy Toole - Publication/Edition: 1981 Louisiana State University Press, sixth printing - Condition: Publishers’s tan colored boards, dust jacket is clipped, with only small tears along the spine (no less), the book is inscribed by the authors mother on fly leaf, pages are clean, a bright clean copy with only minor issues in Very Good condition. - Description: Signed and Inscribed on fly leaf by Thelma Ducoing Toole, the author’s mother: “December 12, 1981 Appreciation and Regards from John Kennedy Toole’s mother Thelma Ducoing Toole, to dear Veronica Flint” Thelma Toole’s great efforts that her late son’s satirical novel was finally posthumously published with assistance from professor and author, Walker Percy. The unique satire soon garnered much acclaim and then the Pulitzer, twelve years after her son took his life in despair from rejection of this very novel. He did this at 31 years of age in 1969 after facing consistent rejection from nearly every American publisher. “A masterwork of comedy, pungent slapstick, satire, and intellectual incongruities, make for a grand comic fugue!” - NYT. Presented here is a “great slob of a man in violent revolt against the entire twentieth century!”. This book’s unusual path to success began in 1976 when John Kennedy Toole’s mother, Thelma, using a walker, hobbled into the office of novelist Walker Percy at Loyola University. She was followed by a chauffeur carrying a manuscript that she told Mr.Percy was a “masterpiece”. Percy reluctantly agreed to read it. He became entranced as he read, 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 several more publishers rejected the book, Louisiana State University Press greed to take a chance with a first printing of only 2,500. The soon to be Pulitzer Prize winner went on to 50,000 copies in hardcover and nearly 600,000 in paperback within three years.

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Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Special Attributes: Dust Jacket, Signed

Signed: Yes

Author: John Kennedy Toole

Publisher: Louisiana State University

Topic: Literature

Subject: Satire

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