{"product_id":"9780141182865","title":"A Confederacy of Dunces","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Toole, John Kennedy, Percy, Walker \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 30\/03\/2000,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 352 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780141182865,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne 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 ConnollyA 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...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNever 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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39754863968300,"sku":"9780141182865","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780141182865.jpg?v=1759658269","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780141182865","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}