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Synopsis
This intriguing documentary tells the story of John Kennedy Toole and his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, A Confederacy of Dunces, a uniquely New Orleans story. His life was one that was ripe with brilliance and promise—but ended in despair. Through the tireless work of this mother, Thelma Ducoing Toole, the story of his life is given a surprising third act, as she brings the novel from a dusty cardboard box above a cedar chest into the hearts of millions of readers in seventeen different countries.
It’s not only the author’s life that interests us, it is the long, twisted path that his masterpiece took to acceptance and success—for the work, for the author, and for Thelma.
