Ken and Thelma: The Story of A Confederacy of Dunces

Ken and Thelma: The Story of A Confederacy of Dunces

Intimate portrait of the Pulitzer Prize winner. John Kennedy Tooleâ€™s first novel, A Confederacy of Dunces, which Walker Percy called a â€œgargantuan tumultuous human tragi-comedy,â€ became a publishing phenomenon, with almost two million copies in print worldwide in eighteen languages. The bookâ€™s outrageous protagonist, Ignatius Reilly, is an icon of contemporary American fiction. Now Ken and Thelma sheds new light on the tragic life story of the author, known as â€œKenâ€ to his friends. Drawing on his own journals and personal letters, Joel L. Fletcher re-creates his friendship with Ken in the early 1960s and his long association with Kenâ€™s indomitable mother, Thelma Ducoing Toole, both before and after the bookâ€™s publication. Includes personal photographs, many never before published.
Country USA
Manufacturer Pelican Publishing
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2017-02-01
Format Kindle eBook

You might also like...