A Confederacy of Dunces

One of the BBC''s ''100 Novels That Shaped Our World''br>br>''My favourite book of all time... it stays with you long after you have read it - for your whole life, in fact'' Billy Connollybr>br>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 unhinged. Ignatius ignores them, heaving his vast bulk through the city''s fleshpots in a noble crusade against vice, modernity and ignorance. But his momma has a nasty surprise in store for him: Ignatius must get a job. Undaunted, he uses his new-found employment to further his mission - and now he has a pirate costume and a hot-dog cart to do it with...br>br>This stunning clothbound edition of John Kennedy Toole''s savagely funny, satirical masterpiece is designed by the acclaimed Coralie-Bickford Smith.br>br>''A pungent work of slapstick, satire and intellectual incongruities ... it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue''br>The New York Times>

Product details

• Authors: John Kennedy Toole
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2016
• EAN: 9780241284667
• ISBN: 978-0-241-28466-7
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 204 mm x 33 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Penguin Clothbound Classics; Penguin Classics; Penguin Clothbound Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; New Orleans, FICTION / Humorous / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Satire, Humour, Humorous fiction