Written by John Kennedy Toole - Audio book narrated by Barrett Whitener - Unabridged Fiction - 11 RETAIL EDITION COMPACT DISCS - 13.5 hours

Publisher, Blackstone Audiobooks (April 2005)

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1981

A KLIATT Editor’s Choice Audiobook for 2007

“His story bursts with wholly original characters…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.” —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.” —New York Times Book Review

“A Confederacy of Dunces has been reviewed almost everywhere, and every reviewer has loved it. For once, everyone is right.” —Rolling Stone

“A masterpiece of character comedy…The novel can hardly contain burstingly funny Ignatius—and the mix of high and low comedy is almost stroboscopic: brilliant, relentless, delicious, perhaps even classic.” —Kirkus Reviews

“Barrett Whitener strikes just the right note of Rabelaisian iconoclasm. He does justice, not only to each memorably drawn character, but also to the witty, elegant writing.” —AudioFile

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. Full, pursed lips protruded beneath the bushy black moustache and, at their corners, sank into little folds filled with disapproval and potato chip crumbs.

So enters one of the most memorable characters in recent American fiction: Ignatius J. Reilly, an obese, self-absorbed, hapless Don Quixote of the French Quarter, whose half-hearted attempts at employment lead to a series of wacky adventures among the denizens of New Orleans' lower depths.

About the Author: JOHN KENNEDY TOOLE (1937-1969), a native of New Orleans, graduated from Tulane University and received a master’s degree in English from Columbia University. He taught at Hunter College, the University of Southwestern Louisiana, and Dominican College in New Orleans. After his death, his book A Confederacy of Dunces was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction in 1981.