A confederacy of dunces

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A confederacy of dunces

John Kennedy Toole ; foreword by Walker Percy

(Penguin classics)(Penguin modern classics)(Penguin fiction)

Penguin Books, 2000, c1980

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First published: [U.S.] : Louisiana State University Press, 1980

Published in [U.K.]: Allen Lane and Penguin Books, 1981

Reprinted in Penguin classics: 2000

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Description

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' 'My favourite book of all time... it stays with you long after you have read it - for your whole life, in fact' Billy Connolly 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... Never published during his lifetime, John Kennedy Toole's hilarious satire, A Confederacy of Dunces is a Don Quixote for the modern age, and this Penguin Modern Classics edition includes a foreword by Walker Percy. 'A pungent work of slapstick, satire and intellectual incongruities ... it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue' The New York Times

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Details

  • NCID
    BC13687335
  • ISBN
    • 9780141182865
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London
  • Pages/Volumes
    vii, 338 p.
  • Size
    20 cm
  • Classification
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