{"product_id":"9780141182865","title":"A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOne of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'My favourite book of all time... it stays with you long after you have read it - for your whole life, in fact' Billy Connolly\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eUndaunted, 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 Toole's 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 ...\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eit is nothing less than a grand comic fugue'The New York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Kennedy Toole","offers":[{"title":"352 pages \/ 30\/03\/2000 \/ Modern \u0026 contemporary fiction (post c 1945)","offer_id":57441614135671,"sku":"9780141182865","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9780141182865.jpg?v=1779364639","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9780141182865","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}