A Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole
Grove Press
(416 pages)
Keyword(s): Literary fiction
Dates read: September 30 - October 06, 1996,
Rating:
This was another of Eric's recommendations. I found it less engaging, and the characters less sympathetic, than he did. While it was humorous, it was not side-splittingly funny. I found Toole's satirization of 20th century America to be unfortunately accurate and rather depressing.

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