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        A Confederacy of Dunces


        setting

        New Orleans

        time

        1960s

        language

        English

        region

        North America

        year published

        1980

        page count

        405

        difficulty

        Advanced

        main characters

        Ignatius J. Reilly

        Rip's impressions

        Reserved for Guest Editor

        first line

        A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears themselves, stuck out on either side like turn signals indicating two directions at once. Full, pursed lips protruded beneath the bushy black moustache and, at their corners, sand into little folds filled with disapproval and potato chip crumbs.

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