The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel set in New Orleans, following the misadventures of the outsized, irascible Ignatius J. Reilly through the city's back streets, odd neighborhoods, and eccentric cast of characters.
John Kennedy Toole completed the manuscript before his death in 1969, and it was published only through the determined efforts of his mother, Thelma Ducoing Toole, who placed it with Walker Percy in the late 1970s. Percy brought it to Louisiana State University Press, which published an initial run of 800 copies in 1980; Toole was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction the following year. More than 1.5 million copies have since been sold worldwide.
- John Kennedy Toole, Author
- Published in 1980
- Paperback, 405 pages
- Published by Grove Press
- ISBN: 9780802130204
The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel set in New Orleans, following the misadventures of the outsized, irascible Ignatius J. Reilly through the city's back streets, odd neighborhoods, and eccentric cast of characters.
John Kennedy Toole completed the manuscript before his death in 1969, and it was published only through the determined efforts of his mother, Thelma Ducoing Toole, who placed it with Walker Percy in the late 1970s. Percy brought it to Louisiana State University Press, which published an initial run of 800 copies in 1980; Toole was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction the following year. More than 1.5 million copies have since been sold worldwide.
- John Kennedy Toole, Author
- Published in 1980
- Paperback, 405 pages
- Published by Grove Press
- ISBN: 9780802130204