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ONE OF THE BBC'S 100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD 'This is probably my favourite book of all time' Billy Connolly A pithy, laugh-out-loud story following John Kennedy Toole's larger-than-life Ignatius J. Reilly, floundering his...

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One 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 b...

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One 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 b...

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A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero, one Ignatius J. Reilly, is "huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter. His story bursts with wholly original...

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One 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 ...

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The accomplished and evocative first novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Confederacy of Dunces. John Kennedy Toole wrote The Neon Bible for a literary contest at the age of sixteen. The manuscript was finally published twenty years aft...

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Brought to you by Penguin.One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'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...

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WHAT MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED TO IGNATIUS J. REILLY?In this parody of A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES by John Kennedy Toole, John Kennedy Toole Jr. plunges Ignatius J. Reilly into a New York City winter wonderland, where our Falstaffian hero inadvertently beco...

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David's father goes off to war, leaving David and his mother to fight poverty and shame on their own in a small Southern town.

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After more than three decades, the peerless wit and indulgent absurdity of A Confederacy of Dunces continues to attract new readers. Though the manuscript was rejected by many publishers during Toole's lifetime, his mother successfully publis...

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize"e;A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue."e;-The New York Times Book ReviewA green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of...

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize"e;A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue."e;-The New York Times Book ReviewA green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of...

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Die braven Bürger von New Orleans scheinen nicht besonders viel von Ignatius und seinen Ausrastern zu halten. Der aber ignoriert sie einfach, wenn er seinen massigen Körper zu den Fleischtöpfen der Stadt bewegt. Er führt immerhin einen edlen Kreuz...

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En av litteraturhistoriens roligaste böcker i efterlängtad nyutgåva Möt Ignatius J. Reilly, en modern Don Quijote i en lat, självupptagen och misantropisk mans kropp. Trettio år gammal bor Ignatius fortfarande hemma hos sin mamma i 1960-talets New...

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