Ken and Thelma: The Story of A Confederacy of Dunces

"Ken has a real gift for mimicry and a refined sense of the absurd . . . the English faculty . . .both fear and court Ken because of his biting comic talent." —from Joel L. Fletcher's journal

John Kennedy Toole's first published novel, A Confederacy of Dunces , which Walker Percy called a"gargantuan tumultuous human tragi-comedy," became a publishing phenomenon, with almost two million copies in print worldwide in eighteen languages. The book's outrageous protagonist, Ignatius Reilly, is an ...