| Description |
vii, 338 pages ; 24 cm |
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regular print |
| Summary |
A spectacular, Pultizer Prize-winning novel by a master of comedy, beloved by readers and critics alike. The place is the French Quarter, the characters, denizens of New Orleans's lower depths |
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Meet Ignatius J. Reilly, a 30-year-old medievalist who lives at home with his mother in New Orleans, and pens his magnum opus on Big Chief writing pads he keeps hidden under his bed. Considered by many a comic masterpiece that memorably evokes the city of New Orleans and whose robust protagonist is a modern-day Falstaff, Don Quixote, or Gargantua; other are not amused by a fat, flatulent, gluttonous, loud, lying, hypocritical, self-deceiving, self-centered blowhard who masturbates to memories of a dog |
| Notes |
"Twentieth anniversary edition"-T.p. verso |
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In slip case |
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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1981 |
| Subject |
English fiction.
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Marginality, Social -- Fiction.
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Mothers and sons -- Fiction.
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Mothers and sons -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Fiction.
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Young men -- Fiction.
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Young men -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Fiction.
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| SUBJECT |
New Orleans (La.) -- Fiction.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008108468
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New Orleans (La.) -- Fiction.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008108468
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| Genre/Form |
Novels.
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| Author |
Percy, Walker, 1916-1990, writer of introduction
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| LC no. |
79020190 |
| ISBN |
0807106577 |
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9780807106570 |
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