A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Meet the fat, flatulent and eloquent Ignatius J. Reilly in John Kennedy Toole's light and pithy comic tale A Confederacy of Dunces, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range
'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 . . .
About the Author
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 found the audience it deserved. His long-suppressed novel The Neon Bible, written when he was only sixteen, was eventually published as well.
A Confederacy of Dunces won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Format: Paperback | 416 pages
Dimensions (cm): 18.1 x 11.1 x 2.4 | 238g
Publication Date: 13 May 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books
Publication City/Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN10: 0241951593
ISBN13: 9780241951590
Condition: Good
A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including two very small black stains on the top-edge of the front cover, but no scuff marks or creasing, and no holes or tears. All pages are undamaged with very no creasing or tearing. No pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text and no writing in margins. No missing pages.