{"product_id":"a-confederacy-of-dunces-pb","title":"John Kennedy Toole: A Confederacy of Dunces [2000] paperback","description":"\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","brand":"Toole, John Kennedy \u0026 Percy, Walker","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":42503918256313,"sku":"9780141182865","price":13.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Good","offer_id":47621027987795,"sku":"XG80141182865","price":6.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":50807054106963,"sku":"XV80141182865","price":6.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/toole-john-kennedy-percy-walker-john-kennedy-toole-a-confederacy-of-dunces-2000-paperback-1156771338.jpg?v=1744981637","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/a-confederacy-of-dunces-pb","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}