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001 2012000259
003 DLC
005 20120511103303.0
008 120125s2012 nyu b 001 0beng
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020 $a9780306820403 (hardback)
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050 00 $aPS3570.O54$bC666 2012
084 $aBIO007000$2bisacsh
082 00 $a813/.54$aB$223
100 1 $aMacLauchlin, Cory.
245 10 $aButterfly in the typewriter :$bthe tragic life of John Kennedy Toole and the remarkable story of A confederacy of dunces /$cCory MacLauchlin.
260 $aNew York :$bDa Capo Press,$c2012.
263 $a1203
300 $ap. cm.
520 $a"The saga of John Kennedy Toole is one of the greatest stories of American literary history. After writing A Confederacy of Dunces, Toole corresponded with Robert Gottlieb of Simon & Schuster for two years. Exhausted from Gottlieb's suggested revisions, Toole declared the publication of the manuscript hopeless and stored it in a box. Years later he suffered a mental breakdown, took a two-month journey across the United States, and finally committed suicide on an inconspicuous road outside of Biloxi. Following the funeral, Toole's mother discovered the manuscript. After many rejections, she cornered Walker Percy, who found it a brilliant novel and spearheaded its publication. In 1981, twelve years after the author's death, A Confederacy of Dunces won the Pulitzer Prize. In Butterfly in the Typewriter, Cory MacLauchlin draws on scores of new interviews with friends, family, and colleagues as well as full access to the extensive Toole archive at Tulane University, capturing his upbringing in New Orleans, his years in New York City, his frenzy of writing in Puerto Rico, his return to his beloved city, and his descent into paranoia and depression"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
600 10 $aToole, John Kennedy,$d1937-1969.$tConfederacy of dunces.
650 0 $aNovelists, American$y20th century$vBiography.
650 7 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary.$2bisacsh