Ken and Thelma: The Story of A Confederacy of Dunces

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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.

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