Ignatius Rising: The Life Of John Kennedy Toole [Paperback]

The phenomenal success of John Kennedy Tooles comic masterpiece, A Confederacy of Dunces, is now legendary, a story that has long beckoned a deeper exploration into the life, imagination, and demise of the writer responsible for one of American literatures most memorable charactersIgnatius J. Reilly. In Ignatius Rising, Ren? Pol Nevils and Deborah George Hardy present the first biography of Toole, drawing upon scores of interviews with contemporaries of the writer and acquaintances of his influencing mother, Thelma, as well as unpublished letters, documents, and photographs. Frank yet sympathetic, Ignatius Rising deftly describes a life that is dark, tragic, bizarre, and amazingbut luminous with the gift of laughter, a life not unlike those of Tooles beloved characters, now loved the world over.

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