A Confederacy of Dunces

One Of The Bbc's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' 'My Favourite Book Of All Time... It Stays With You Long After You Have Read It - For Your Whole Life, In Fact' Billy Connolly A 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 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. 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... This Stunning Clothbound Edition Of John Kennedy Toole's Savagely Funny, Satirical Masterpiece Is Designed By The Acclaimed Coralie-Bickford Smith. 'A Pungent Work Of Slapstick, Satire And Intellectual Incongruities ... It Is Nothing Less Than A Grand Comic Fugue' The New York Times