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Tommy Orange\\xa0says he wasn\'t much of a reader in his early years. But a chance encounter with an absurd, experimental novel by John Kennedy Toole showed him a path to writing a novel that was truly his own.
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\\n\\nA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
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