A Confederacy of Dunces

Pulitzer Prize Winner
"A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue."--"The New York Times Book Review"
"A corker, an epic comedy, a rumbling, roaring avalanche of a book."--"The Washington Post"
"An astonishingly good novel, radiant with intelligence and artful high comedy."--"Newsweek"
"One of the funniest books ever written . . . it will make you laugh out loud till your belly aches and your eyes water."--"The New Republic"
"The episodes explode one after the other like fireworks on a stormy night. No doubt about it, this book is destined to become a classic."--"The Baltimore Sun"
"The dialogue is superbly mad. You simply sweep along, unbelievably entranced."--"The Boston Globe"
"An astonishingly original and assured comic spree."--"New York Magazine"
"As hilarious as it indisputably is, A Confederacy of Dunces is a serious and important work."-- "Los Angeles Herald Examiner"
"If a book's price is measured against the laughs it provokes, "A Confederacy of Dunces" is the bargain of the year." -- "Time"
"A brilliant and evocative novel." --"San Francisco Chronicle"
"I found myself laughing out loud again and again as I read this ribald book." --"Christian Science Monitor"
"Crazy magnificent once-in-a-blue-moon first novel. . . . There is a touch of genius about Toole and what he has created." --"Publishers Weekly"
"A masterpiece of character comedy . . . brilliant, relentless, delicious, perhaps even classic." --"Kirkus Reviews"
"Astonishing, extravagant, lunatic, satiric, and peculiar, but it is above all genuine, skillful, and unsentimentally comic." --"Booklist"
Ignatius J. Reilly is Bette Midler's favorite hero of fiction (Vanity Fair, August 2008)