![]() ![]() ![]() 'A pungent work of slapstick, satire and intellectual incongruities. This stunning clothbound edition of John Kennedy Toole's savagely funny, satirical masterpiece is designed by the acclaimed Coralie-Bickford Smith. ![]() See All from 18.81 2000, Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge ISBN-13: 9780807126066. 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. See All from 5.77 2006, Penguin Classics, London ISBN-13: 9780141023465. But his momma has a nasty surprise in store for him: Ignatius must get a job. Ignatius ignores them, heaving his vast bulk through the city's fleshpots in a noble crusade against vice, modernity and ignorance. The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged. Reilly of New Orleans, noble crusader against a world of dunces. it stays with you long after you have read it - for your whole life, in fact' Billy ConnollyĪ monument to sloth, rant and contempt, a behemoth of fat, flatulence and furious suspicion of anything modern - this is Ignatius J. One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' ![]()
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