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Dumskallarnas sammansvärjning

AvJohn Kennedy Toole

Inbunden, Svenska, 2025

258 kr

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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 Orleans, där han i sitt omåttliga förakt för allt modernt drömmer sig tillbaka till den gamla goda medeltiden. När hans mamma en natt kraschar deras bil - efter att tillsammans med Ignatius ha flytt från polisen och gömt sig på en strippklubb - tvingas han ta klivet ut i den verkliga världen och skaffa sig ett jobb. Romanen publicerades 1980, elva år efter Kennedy Tooles död vid bara trettioett års ålder. Det då refuserade manuskriptet hade han lämnat kvar i en kartong på sitt rum, och det var bara tack vare hans mammas oupphörliga försök som boken till slut blev utgiven. Året därpå belönades romanen med Pulitzerpriset. I översättning av Einar Heckscher.

JOHN KENNEDY TOOLE [1937-1969] var en amerikansk författare, mest känd för den postumt utgivna romanen Dumskallarnas sammansvärjning, som ofta kallats världens roligaste bok och 2019 utsågs av BBC till en av världens hundra mest inspirerande romaner.

Confederacy of Dunces

AvJohn Kennedy Toole

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

203 kr

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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 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...This stunning clothbound edition of John Kennedy Toole's savagely funny, satirical masterpiece is designed by the acclaimed Coralie-Bickford Smith.'A pungent work of slapstick, satire and intellectual incongruities ... it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue'The New York Times

Confederacy of Dunces

AvJohn Kennedy Toole

Häftad, Engelska, 1994, 12-15 år

254 kr

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Confederacy of Dunces

‘Probably my favourite book of all time’ Billy Connolly

AvJohn Kennedy Toole

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

139 kr

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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 way through 1960s New Orleans, beautifully resigned with cover art by Gary Taxali_____________'This city is famous for its gamblers, prostitutes, exhibitionists, anti-Christs, alcoholics, sodomites, drug addicts, fetishists, onanists, pornographers, frauds, jades, litterbugs, and lesbians . . . don't make the mistake of bothering me.'Ignatius J. Reilly: fat, flatulent, eloquent and almost unemployable. By the standards of ordinary folk he is pretty much unhinged, too. But is he bothered by this?No. For this misanthropic crusader against an America fallen into vice and ignorance has a mission: to rescue a naked female philosopher in distress. And he has a pirate costume and hot-dog cart to do it with . . ._____________'I succumbed, stunned and seduced, page after page, vocal with delight. A masterwork of comedy' New York Times'A fine funny novel. This is the kind of book one wants to keep quoting from' Anthony Burgess

Confederacy of Dunces

AvJohn Kennedy Toole

Häftad, Engelska, 2000

139 kr

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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 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...Never 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

The Neon Bible

AvJohn Kennedy Toole

Häftad, Engelska, 1994

264 kr

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Neon Bible

AvJohn Kennedy Toole

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

130 kr

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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 after Toole's death.The Neon Bible opens with the narrator, a young man named David, on a train, leaving the small Southern town he's grown up in for the first time. What unspools is the tender and tragic coming-of-age story of a lonely child, a story that revolves around David's unorthodox friendship with his great-aunt Mae - a former stage performer who is fiercely at odds with the conservative townspeople - and the everyday toll of living in an environment of religious fanaticism. From the opening lines of The Neon Bible, David is fully alive, naive yet sharply observant, drawing us into his world through the sure artistry of John Kennedy Toole.