John Kennedy Toole
A Confederacy of Dunces

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"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, sand into little folds filled with disapproval and potato chip crumbs." - John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

"Toole is as irrevocably tied to New Orleans as Faulkner was to Oxford, Mississippi. No other writer, native or otherwise, seems to have known the city as well nor have been able to evoke its sights and sounds and smells as powerfully as he."
- Kenneth Holditch, Another Kind of Confederacy

 

"An astonishingly good novel, radiant with intelligence and artful high comedy."
-News Week

"A corker, an epic comedy, rumbling, roaring avalanche of a book"
-The Washington Post

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

"A Confederacy of Dunces has been reviewed almost everywhere and
every reviewer has loved it. For once every
review is right."
-Rolling Stone

 

 

© Jamie Bertel 2007
English I Final Exam Project: Mrs. Wohl's English Class (A2)
Academy of the Sacred Heart, New Orleans, LA