1981 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction Winner
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A Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole
“A monument to sloth, rant and contempt, a behemoth of fat, flatulence and furious suspicion of anything modern – this is Ignatius J. Reilly of New Orleans, noble crusader against a world of dunces. The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhi…
1981 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction Shortlist
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Godric
Frederick Buechner
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