![]() ![]() it stays with you long after you have read it - for your whole life, in fact' Billy Connolly 'A masterwork of comedy' The New York Times 'This is probably my favourite book of all time' Billy Connolly Never published during his lifetime, John Kennedy Toole's hilarious satire, A Confederacy of Dunces is a Don Quixote for the modern age, now brought to life by the comedy legend, Reginald D. 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. But his momma has a nasty surprise in store for him: Ignatius must get a job. Ignatius ignores them, heaving his vast bulk through the city's fleshpots in a noble crusade against vice, modernity and ignorance. ![]() The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged. Reilly of New Orleans, noble crusader against a world of dunces. One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'Ī monument to sloth, rant and contempt, a behemoth of fat, flatulence and furious suspicion of anything modern - this is Ignatius J. ![]()
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