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An entire novel of lowlives doing lowlife things which is vacuous and unrewarding. Tragically, in 1969 and at the age of 32, he committed suicide. When john kennedy tooles a confederacy of dunces was awarded the 1980 pulitzer prize for fiction, the wire services carried a photograph of tooles mother, thelma, accepting the prize for her. Jun 17, 2011 he wrote a confederacy of dunces in the early sixties and tried unsuccessfully to get the novel published. Karen sandstrom, the plain dealer as hilarious as it indisputably is, a confederacy of dunces is a serious and important work. I picked this book up a borders express 4 years ago that was.
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