{"product_id":"a-confederacy-of-dunces","title":"A Confederacy of Dunces","description":"                                            Meet Ignatius J. Reilly- fat, flatulent, eloquent and almost unemployable\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'This city is famous for its gamblers, prostitutes, exhibitionists, anti-Christs, alcoholics, sodomites, drug addicts, fetishists, onanists, pornographers, frauds, jades, litterbugs, and lesbians . . . don't make the mistake of bothering \u003ci\u003eme\u003c\/i\u003e.'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIgnatius J. Reilly- fat, flatulent, eloquent and almost unemployable. By the standards of ordinary folk he is pretty much unhinged, too. But is he bothered by this?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo. For this misanthropic crusader against an America fallen into vice and ignorance has a mission- to rescue a naked female philosopher in distress. And he has a pirate costume and hot-dog cart to do it with . . .\u003cbr\u003eJohn Kennedy Toole was born in New Orleans in 1937. He received a master's degree in English from Columbia University and taught at Hunter College and at the University of Southwestern Louisiana. He wrote \u003ci\u003eA Confederacy of Dunces\u003c\/i\u003e in the early sixties and tried unsuccessfully to get the novel published; depressed, at least in part by his failure to place the book, he committed suicide in 1969. It was only through the tenacity of his mother that her son's book was eventually published and found the audience it deserved.\r\n                                        ","brand":"A Confederacy of Dunces","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42285571735743,"sku":"9780241951590","price":23.4,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0614\/1689\/8751\/products\/9780241951590.jpg?v=1679108666","url":"https:\/\/www.popweasel.co.nz\/products\/a-confederacy-of-dunces","provider":"Pop Weasel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}