{"product_id":"confederacy-of-dunces-1","title":"Confederacy Of Dunces","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the BBC''s ''100 Novels That Shaped Our World''\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''My favourite book of all time... it stays with you long after you have read it - for your  whole life, in fact'' Billy Connolly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNever published during his lifetime, John Kennedy Toole''s hilarious satire, \u003ci\u003eA Confederacy of Dunces \u003c\/i\u003eis a \u003ci\u003eDon Quixote \u003c\/i\u003efor the modern age, and this Penguin Modern Classics edition includes a foreword by Walker Percy. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A pungent work of slapstick, satire and intellectual incongruities ... it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue''\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57307036549502,"sku":"NW9780141182865","price":10.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780141182865.jpg?v=1780884274","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/confederacy-of-dunces-1","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}