![]() Reilly went on to sell over two million copies and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1981, making Toole one of only three writers to win the prize posthumously.Īlmost as much as the book itself, readers were intrigued by the unique journey the novel took to publication, with a flamboyant yet grief-stricken mother dedicating what remained of her life to ensuring her son’s genius was recognized by the world. Eventually, she succeeded, and the New Orleans-set picaresque tale of slovenly philosopher and medievalist Ignatius J. Over the course of the next decade, Toole’s grieving mother Thelma dedicated her life to ensuring the second of these, “A Confederacy Of Dunces,” found publication. Aged just 31, the literary professor and author left behind two unpublished novels. ![]() On March 26 1969, on a quiet country road outside Biloxi, Mississippi, John Kennedy Toole took his own life. ![]()
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Peter Wilson, fresh from law school, was a new recruit who would confont his fate in Da Nang. For the men in her life, Viet Nam would change their lives in ways hey could not escape or deny. We follow her from high school in Savannah to college in Berkeley and then to work in Saigon.įor the soldiers she knew and met there, Viet Nam would change their lives in ways they could never have imagined. As a journalist, Paxton Andrews would experience Vietnam firsthand. ![]() ![]() ![]() Happily, Chuck Klosterman is more than up to the job.īeyond epiphenomena like Cop Killer and Titanic and Zima, there were wholesale shifts in how society was perceived: the rise of the internet, pre-9/11 politics, and the paradoxical belief that nothing was more humiliating than trying too hard. The 90s brought about a revolution in the human condition we're still groping to understand. 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