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One of the BBC s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World My favourite book of all time… it stays with you long after you have read it – for your whole life, in fact Billy ConnollyA 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… This stunning clothbound edition of John Kennedy Toole s savagely funny, satirical masterpiece is designed by the acclaimed Coralie-Bickford Smith. A pungent work of slapstick, satire and intellectual incongruities … it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue The New York Times; 352 pages; Published: 06 10 2016