Ignatius J. Reilly, a grossly overweight medieval scholar who lives with his mother, is forced to seek employment when she can no longer tolerate his laziness. His disdainful encounters with the modern culture of New Orleans, his habitual misunderstanding of its inhabitants (some of them no less eccentric than himself) and his often hypocritical ...
The story of David, a boy growing up in a southern town in the 1940s. From his home on the hill, he can watch the whole valley below. This novel was the subject of a legal dispute, in the wake of the author's death and the success of his previous novel, "A Confederacy of Dunces".
When Marie decides to leave Bruce, she delivers herself of a torrent of ferocious humor and foul-mouthed vituperation concerning him and their marriage, not to mention love, hate, caring, commitment, and all the other current cliches about relationships. As he follows Marie and Bruce through breakfast, a friend's party, and dinner, Wallace Shawn ...
Tras la publicacin y rpido ascenso a la fama ms estrepitosa de La conjura de los necios, los crticos y lectores que haban aclamado esa novela un autntico libro de culto de la literatura contempornea comenzaron a or rumores de que su autor, el suicidado John Kennedy Toole, haba dejado otra novela indita.
The story of David, a boy growing up in a southern town in the 1940s. From his home on the hill, he can watch the whole valley below. Other work by the author includes "A Confederacy of Dunces".
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