num_pages: 429
description: Meet Ignatius J. Reilly: flatulent, eloquent and pretty much unemployable...The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged as well. Ignatius ignores them as he heaves 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 ...
language: English
title: A Confederacy of Dunces
titlecomplete: A Confederacy of Dunces
characters: Santa Battaglia, Angelo Mancuso, Irene Reilly, Myrna Minkoff, Ignatius Jacques Reilly, Burma Jones, Lana Lee
genres: Classics, Comedy, American, Humor, Novels, Audiobook, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 268862
places: New Orleans, Louisiana
awards: awardedAt: 347184000000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 347184000000
name: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, awardedAt: 315561600000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Penguin Books