John Kennedy Toole
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ATL: Forget the Cover!
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
WML Between Two Books Book Club
WML LeVar Burton's Book Club
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
WML Between Two Books Book Club
WML LeVar Burton's Book Club
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Ignatius J. Reilly of New Orleans, --selfish, domineering, deluded, tragic and larger than life-- is a noble crusader against a world of dunces. He is a modern-day Quixote beset by giants of the modern age. In magnificent revolt against the twentieth century, Ignatius propels his monstrous bulk among the flesh posts of the fallen city, documenting life on his Big Chief tablets as he goes, until his maroon-haired mother decrees that Ignatius must work....