We aim to dispatch all items which are in stock on the same working day when orders are received by 14:00. It was only through the tenacity of his mother that her son's book was eventually published and found the audience it deserved. He wrote A Confederacy of Dunces in the early sixties and tried unsuccessfully to get the novel published depressed, at least in part by his failure to place the book, he committed suicide in 1969.

He received a master's degree in English from Columbia University and taught at Hunter College and at the University of Southwestern Louisiana. The New York Times About the AuthorJohn Kennedy Toole was born in New Orleans in 1937. it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue' 'A pungent work of slapstick, satire and intellectual incongruities. 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. 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. But his momma has a nasty surprise in store for him: Ignatius must get a job. Ignatius ignores them, heaving his vast bulk through the city's fleshpots in a noble crusade against vice, modernity and ignorance. The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged. Reilly of New Orleans, noble crusader against a world of dunces. it stays with you long after you have read it - for your whole life, in fact' Billy ConnollyĪ monument to sloth, rant and contempt, a behemoth of fat, flatulence and furious suspicion of anything modern - this is Ignatius J. One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' But his momma has a nasty surprise in store for him. Ignatius ignores them as he heaves his vast bulk through the city's fleshpots in a noble crusade against vice, modernity and ignorance. The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged as well.

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