St. James Book Club: A Confederacy of Dunces, 1/17/18

Our canceled meeting has been rescheduled to Wednesday, January 17th, 7pm. It sounds as if folks are in two different camps on this book; we may have a lively discussion! We also have a long list of books from which to select our next reading. Come help us decide.

Below, is information from Amazon about A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. As always, you can borrow book club reads (typically available in several formats) from your local library (or follow this local library link), or purchase them from your local independent book store, or on-line from sites such as Amazon, where they are no doubt available in a variety of formats and editions. A particularly good audio version, narrated by Barrett Whitener, is available through Hoopla

A friend reports that people either love this book or loathe it. Come share your review! Join us at 1170 Broadway at 7pm on January 10. Enter through the side door on Clarendon.

A Confederacy of Dunces
“A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole’s hero, one Ignatius J. Reilly, is “huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter. His story bursts with wholly original characters, denizens of New Orleans’ lower depths, incredibly true-to-life dialogue, and the zaniest series of high and low comic adventures” (Henry Kisor, Chicago Sun-Times).”