A Confederacy of Dunces

Name: A Confederacy of Dunces
SKU: 10058752
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‘Probably my favourite book of all time’ Billy Connolly

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John Kennedy Toole

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Series:

Penguin Essentials

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Meet Ignatius J. Reilly- fat, flatulent, eloquent and almost unemployable 'This city is famous for its gamblers, prostitutes, exhibitionists, anti-Christs, alcoholics, sodomites, drug addicts, fetishists, onanists, pornographers, frauds, jades, litterbugs, and lesbians . . . don't make the mistake of bothering me.' Ignatius J. Reilly- fat, flatulent, eloquent and almost unemployable. By the standards of ordinary folk he is pretty much unhinged, too. But is he bothered by this? No. For this misanthropic crusader against an America fallen into vice and ignorance has a mission- to rescue a naked female philosopher in distress. And he has a pirate costume and hot-dog cart to do it with . . .

Author Biography:

John Kennedy Toole was born in New Orleans in 1937. He received a master's degree in English from Columbia University and taught at Hunter College and at the University of Southwestern Louisiana. He wrote A Confederacy of Dunces in the early sixties and tried unsuccessfully to get the novel published; depressed, at least in part by his failure to place the book, he committed suicide in 1969. It was only through the tenacity of his mother that her son's book was eventually published and went on to win the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His long-suppressed novel The Neon Bible, written when he was only sixteen, has also been published.

Release date NZ

April 7th, 2011

Author

John Kennedy Toole

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Contributor

Foreword by Walker Percy

Pages

416

Series

Penguin Essentials

Dimensions

111x181x25

ISBN-13

9780241951590

Product ID

10058752

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