A Confederacy of Dunces
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Published:6th Oct '16
Should be back in stock very soon
This hardback is available in another edition too:
- Paperback£9.99(9780141182865)
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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...
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
My favourite book of all time. I've read it so many times and I still go back to it today. -- Billy Connolly
ISBN: 9780241284667
Dimensions: 204mm x 138mm x 33mm
Weight: 468g
352 pages