A Confederacy of Dunces by JOHN KENNEDY TOOLE abridged in 15 parts by LINDA TAYLOR
Read by Kerry Shale (1) In 1969, totally depressed by the lack of publishers' interest in his novel, John Kennedy Toole killed himself. Eleven years later, through the efforts of his mother, the book was launched to receive universal acclaim as a work of comic genius.
It is the story of Ignatius J. Reilly, enormously fat, constantly flatulent, consistently contemptuous of all things modern, as he sloths his way through the evils of mid-20th-century New Orleans. ProducerROGER PINE
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