A Confederacy of Dunces: A Novel by Toole, John Kennedy; Codrescu, Andrei [Introduction]; Percy, Walker [Foreword]; - 2000

LSU Press, 2000. 20th Anniversary Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good . 6x1x9. A Confederacy of Dunces is a picaresque novel by American novelist John Kennedy Toole which reached publication in 1980, eleven years after Toole's death. Published through the efforts of writer Walker Percy (who also contributed a foreword) and Toole's mother, Thelma, the book became first a cult classic, then a mainstream success; it earned Toole a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981, and is now considered a canonical work of modern literature of the Southern United States.