A Confederacy of Dunces

ONE OF THE BBC'S 100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD <BR><BR>'This is probably my favourite book of all time' Billy Connolly <BR><BR>A pithy, laugh-out-loud story following John Kennedy Toole's larger-than-life Ignatius J. Reilly, floundering his way through 1960s New Orleans, beautifully resigned with cover art by Gary Taxali<BR>_____________<BR><BR> '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.'<BR><BR><BR>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?<BR><BR> 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 . . .<BR>_____________<BR><BR> 'I succumbed, stunned and seduced, page after page, vocal with delight. A masterwork of comedy' New York Times<BR><BR> 'A fine funny novel. This is the kind of book one wants to keep quoting from' Anthony Burgess