A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

'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 . . .

REVIEWS

"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

"Every reviewer has loved it. For once, everyone is right." ― Rolling Stone

PRODUCT DETAILS
Paperback 
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 978-0241951590
Pages: 416