TOOLE, John Kennedy. A Confederacy of Dunces. Allen Lane. 1980.
8vo. Original cloth and wrapper; pp. xii + 338; spine a little faded, very good.
First UK edition. Published posthumously after the author committed suicide at the age of 31, this was Toole's second novel and a Pulitzer Prize-winning one at that. Toole used his scabrous creation Ignatius Reilly to mock human nature in general and the American South in particular and his novel has become a cult classic lauded for its satirical bite.
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