A Confederacy of Dunces (Evergreen Book)

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)