Ignatius Rising: The Life Of John Kennedy Toole - Couverture souple

Nevils, René Pol; Hardy, Deborah George

 
9780807130599: Ignatius Rising: The Life Of John Kennedy Toole

Synopsis

The phenomenal success of John Kennedy Toole's 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 literature's most memorable characters -- Ignatius J. Reilly. In Ignatius Rising, René 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scores of interviews with contemporaries of the writer and acquaintances of his influencing mother, Thelma, as well as unpublished letters, documents, and photographs.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 amazing -- but luminous with the gift of laughter, a life not unlike those of Toole's beloved characters, now loved the world over.

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À propos de l?auteur

René Pol Nevils lives in Baton Rouge with her husband, Rick. Deborah George Hardy is a member of the Paris Poetry Workshops and founding director of Littlestarfriends.com. She lives in Pasadena, California.

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9780807126806: Ignatius Rising: The Life of John Kennedy Toole

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0807126802 ISBN 13 :  9780807126806
Editeur : Louisiana State University Press, 2001
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