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  • Published: 13 June 2019
  • ISBN: 9780141991436
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 352
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A Confederacy of Dunces

‘Probably my favourite book of all time’ Billy Connolly




An ebook of edition of the cult-famous Penguin Classic which shot to the Sunday Times top 10 in early 2019 following a recommendation by Billy Connolly

The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged as well. Ignatius ignores them as he heaves 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 ...

  • Published: 13 June 2019
  • ISBN: 9780141991436
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 352
Categories:

About the author

John Kennedy Toole


John Kennedy Toole was born in New Orleans in 1937. He received a master's degree in English from Columbia University and taught at Hunter College and at the University of Southwestern Louisiana. He wrote A Confederacy of Dunces in the early sixties and tried unsuccessfully to get the novel published; depressed, at least in part by his failure to place the book, he committed suicide in 1969. It was only through the tenacity of his mother that her son's book was eventually published and found the audience it deserved. His long-suppressed novel The Neon Bible, written when he was only sixteen, was eventually published as well.

A Confederacy of Dunces won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

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Praise for A Confederacy of Dunces

My favourite book of all time. I've read it so many times and I still go back to it today.

Billy Connolly