Publisher, Blackstone Audiobooks (April 2005)

NOTE: RETAIL EDITIONS are packaged in attractive, compact cardboard or jewel-case shrink-wrapped boxes, with full-color art.

"John Toole's novel, A Confederacy of Dunces, is, I can say without hesitation, a fantastic novel, a major achievement, a huge comic-satiric-tragic one-of-a-kind rendering of the life in New Orleans. No one has ever or ever will capture the particularity of the backstreets, middle-and lower-class whites, blacks and other ethnics of New Orleans as Toole has." -Walker Percy "A Confederacy of Dunces has been reviewed almost everywhere, and every reviewer has loved it. For once, everyone is right." --Rolling Stone

This 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... What a delight, what a roaring, rollicking, foot stomping wonder this book is! I laughed until my sides ached, and then I laughed on." --Henry Kisor, Chicago Sun-Times

"A masterwork of comedy... . The novel astonishes with its inventiveness, it lives in the play of its voices. A Confederacy of Dunces is nothing less than a grand comic fugue." --The New York Times Book Review

"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.