A Confederacy of Dunces: John Kennedy Toole (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Toole, John Kennedy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141182865 ISBN 13: 9780141182865

Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2000

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Confederacy of dunces editado por Penguin

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"What a delight, what a roaring, rollicking, footstomping wonder this book is. I laughed until my sides ached, and then I laughed on."

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'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...

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 ... it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue'
The New York Times

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• Verlag: Penguin Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0141182865
• ISBN 13: 9780141182865
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352