Ken and Thelma
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Ken and Thelma

The Story of A Confederacy of Dunces

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eBook - ePub

Ken and Thelma

The Story of A Confederacy of Dunces

About this book

"Ken has a real gift for mimicry and a refined sense of the absurd... the English faculty...both fear and court Ken because of his biting comic talent." --from Joel L. Fletcher's journal

John Kennedy Toole's first published novel, A Confederacy of Dunces, which Walker Percy called a"gargantuan tumultuous human tragi-comedy, " became a publishing phenomenon, with almost two million copies in print worldwide in eighteen languages. The book'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 'Ken' to his friends. Drawing on his own journals and personal letters, Joel L. Fletcher recreates his friendship with Ken in the early 1960s and his long association with Ken's indomitable mother, Thelma Ducoing Toole, after the book's publication. Ken and Thelma features personal photographs, many never before published.

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Information

Publisher
Pelican Publishing
Year
2017
eBook ISBN
9781455606986
Edition
0
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Biographies
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  3. INTRODUCTION
  4. CHAPTER ONE: Ken
  5. CHAPTER TWO: Thelma
  6. CHAPTER THREE: Publication
  7. CHAPTER FOUR: Thelma Goes Forth
  8. CHAPTER FIVE: Thelma by Thelma
  9. CHAPTER SIX: John Toole
  10. CHAPTER SEVEN: Travels with Thelma
  11. CHAPTER EIGHT: Anatomy of a Rejection
  12. CHAPTER NINE: A Saturday with Thelma
  13. CHAPTER TEN: Doonie
  14. CHAPTER ELEVEN: The Robert Coles Lecture
  15. CHAPTER TWELVE: Thelma and Michael
  16. CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Lunches with the Percys
  17. CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Thelma vs. Rhoda Faust, Thelma vs. the Tooles, and Other Feuds
  18. CHAPTER FIFTEEN: "A Way Out of this Dilemma of Being Alive"
  19. Postscript
  20. APPENDIX: Letters from Ken
  21. Sources
  22. Index