A Confederacy of Dunces Stephen DeStefanoHere is Ignatius Reilly: slob extraordinary, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thomas Aquinas rolled into one, who is in violent revolt against the entire modern age, lying in his flannel nightshirt in a back bedroom on Constantinople Street in New Orleans, who between gigantic seizures of flatulence and eructations is filling dozens of Big Chief tablets with invective. His mother thinks he needs to go to work. He does, in a succession
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one of the famed Thirty Comrades who were the nucleus of the modern military
ultimately the poignant discoveries Lucky makes on his way to adulthood bestow upon him a very different kind of heroism than that of which he had dreamed
memorization is minimized and understanding is maximized
This is literary journalism at its zenith
An excellent introduction providing a clear and readable account for students of postwar international history
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startling in its venom and disarming in its humour from the very first sentence' Guardian
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Number of Pages: 428
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