A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy TooleOne 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,

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