{"product_id":"2940012801586","title":"Army of Idiots","description":"Inspired by the Pulitzer Pricing Winnin Novel... \"A Confederacy of Dunces\" by John Kennedy Toole.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn a spring day in 1969, a New Orleans novelist by the name of John K Toole committed suicide at the age of thirty-one. His mother later found a manuscript of a completed novel her son had completed but had never found its way into print. The novel had been turned down for publication by several well known publishers, including Simon \u0026amp; Schuster. Did failure to get the book published lead to the writer’s suicide? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDetermined, Thelma Toole brought the manuscript to another New Orleans novelist by the name of Walker Percy who pushed the novel into print. The title was never changed and “A Confederacy of Dunces” won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction the very next year. Sales of this critically acclaimed novel are now in the millions and many accredit the work of John K Toole as one of the best novels of all time. Anyone who has ever taken a required English course in college and they are likely to remember reading “A Confederacy of Dunces”. On the internet the book has a faithful group ofAustin Teutsch, an Austin author responsible for works on the life of Sam Walton, Barbara Jordon and George Strait interviewed the late author’s mother. He told her that he wanted to continue the story of the characters in her son’s Pulitzer Prize Winning Novel. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHer words encouraged him to not only to complete the follow-up novel but to do justice to her son’s original work.","brand":"Aim High Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47152495231216,"sku":"2940012801586","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012801586_p0.jpg?v=1763572868","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012801586","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}