{"product_id":"9780141182865-a-confederacy-of-dunces","title":"A Confederacy of Dunces","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged as well. Ignatius ignores them as he heaves 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'My favourite book of all time. it stays with you long after you have read it - for your  whole life, in fact' Billy Connolly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNever published during his lifetime, John Kennedy Toole's hilarious satire, \u003ci\u003eA Confederacy of Dunces \u003c\/i\u003eis a \u003ci\u003eDon Quixote \u003c\/i\u003efor the modern age, and this Penguin Modern Classics edition includes a foreword by Walker Percy. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A pungent work of slapstick, satire and intellectual incongruities . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue'\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56451310059894,"sku":"9780141182865","price":9.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_32414435.jpg?v=1760461681","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780141182865-a-confederacy-of-dunces","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}