Books
by John Kennedy Toole
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A Confederacy of Dunces |
Imagine a mixture of Oliver Hardy, Brian Sewell and John Candy in Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Self-important, intellectually arrogant, a moral and physical coward with a fear of sexuality and a sense of destiny, trailing chaos in his wake: this is Ignatius J. Rielly, devotee of Boethius and an indignant man at odds with everything and anyone. A wonderful comic character dropped like a bad egg into the sweaty flesh pots of New Orleans. Recommended!
(Clive Yelf - bwl 29 April 2005) |
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