Description: This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel has sold over three-quarters of a million copies and continues to earn critical acclaim. The story of one Ignatius J. Reilly, a "Don Quixote of the French Quarter", it is a masterpiece of human folly and tragedy.

Reviews: " . . . a masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue." --The New York Times Book Review

"[Ignatius J. Reilly is] huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter. His story bursts with wholly original characters, denizens of New Orleans' lower depths, incredibly true-to-life dialogue, and the zaniest series of high and low comic adventures" --Chicago Sun-Times

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