{"product_id":"a-confederacy-of-dunces-john-kennedy-toole","title":"A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eONE OF THE BBC'S 100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'This is probably my favourite book of all time' \u003c\/b\u003eBilly Connolly \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA pithy, laugh-out-loud story following \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Kennedy Toole's \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003elarger-than-life Ignatius J. Reilly, floundering his way through 1960s New Orleans,\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e beautifully resigned with cover art by Gary Taxali\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e_____________\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e'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.'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIgnatius 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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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 . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e_____________\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'I succumbed, stunned and seduced, page after page, vocal with delight. A masterwork of comedy' \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'A fine funny novel. This is the kind of book one wants to keep quoting from' Anthony Burgess\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eJohn 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 \u003ci\u003eA Confederacy of Dunces\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), A-Format, Englisch, 416 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65811739050333,"sku":"K030449803","price":11.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/3044980300001A.jpg?v=1788525743","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/a-confederacy-of-dunces-john-kennedy-toole","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}