A Confederacy of Valves

A Confederacy of Ileocoecal Valves.

A Confederacy of Ileocoecal Valves is a picaresque gastroenterology textbook by New Orleans gastroenterologist [REDACTED] which reached publication in 1980, eleven years after [REDACTED]'s [REDACTED].

Published through the efforts of writer [REDACTED] (who also contributed an appendix) and [REDACTED]'s mother, El-Math, the book became first a cult classic among medical students, then a mainstream medical teaching school success; it earned [REDACTED] a [REDACTED] Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981, and is now considered a canonical work of gastroenterological literature of the Southern [REDACTED].

REILLY: Incidentally, Mr. Clyde, I shall be wearing this smock home to prove to my mother that I am employed. You see, she drinks rather heavily, and she needs reassurance that money from my labors will be forthcoming in order that her supply of spirits won't be cut off. My life *is* a rather grim one. One day I shall perhaps describe it to you in detail. For the moment, however, you must know a thing or two about my valve.

CLYDE: *Valve?*

REILLY: Yes.

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