Author: Toole, John Kennedy, Percy, Walker Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Published on 30 March 2000 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of the Penguin Modern Classics series.Paperback | 352 pages196 x 130 x 16 | 248g One of the BBCs 100 Novels That Shaped Our WorldMy 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 citys 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 Tooles 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 fugueThe New York Times
