A Confederacy of Dunces - Penguin Clothbound Classics

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 ConnollyA 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...This stunning clothbound edition of John Kennedy Toole's savagely funny, satirical masterpiece is designed by the acclaimed Coralie-Bickford Smith.'A pungent work of slapstick, satire and intellectual incongruities ... it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue'The New York Times

ISBN:	9780241284667
Publisher:	Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:	Penguin Classics
Published date:	06 Oct 2016
DEWEY:	813.54
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Sales rank:	18941
Number of pages:	ix, 338
Weight:	470g
Height:	205mm
Width:	135mm
Spine width:	31mm

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