A Cornucopia of Dunderheads by John Kennedy Toole
WHAT MIGHT HAVE HAPENED TO IGNATIUS J. REILY? In this parody of A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES by John Kennedy Toole, John Kennedy Toole Jr. plunges Ignatius J. Reilly into a New York City winter wonderland, where our Falstaffian hero inadvertently becomes vice president of the Charlie Chan Chinese Fortune Cookie Company, and where he finds a recently unearthed slip of paper that contains an occult secret for overthrowing the governments of the world (in a most unusual way, of course). Ignatius's parodic adventures would not be complete without his nemesis-friend, Myrna Minkoff. Add to the mix her parents, Mr. Minkoff and Mrs. Minkoff, two inept government agents (is there a redundancy here?), Ignatius's mother, his mother's fiance, a virago or two, John Kennedy Toole, Ed Sullivan, and Myrna's concupiscent grandmother, Grandmother Horowitz, and you have the ingredients for a parody unlike any other ever written. With a foreword by Franz-Heinrich Katecki.John Kennedy Toole was born in 1937 and died in 1969 in New Orleans. He got a master's degree from Columbia University after graduating from Tulane University and taught at Hunter College, the University of Southwestern Louisiana, and Dominican College. While stationed in Puerto Rico and teaching English to new recruits, he wrote much of the initial draft of A Confederacy of Dunces.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780692572375 |
| ISBN 10 | 0692572376 |
| Title | A Cornucopia of Dunderheads |
| Author | John Kennedy Toole |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Baidarka Boy |
| Year published | 2015-12-01 |
| Number of pages | 422 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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