Name: A Cornucopia of Dunderheads: A Parody of the Novel A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES by John Kennedy Toole, with a Foreword by Franz-Heinrich Katecki
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Author: Toole, John Kennedy, Jr.
ISBN: 9780692572375

portada A Cornucopia of Dunderheads: A Parody of the Novel A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES by John Kennedy Toole, with a Foreword by Franz-Heinrich Katecki

Type

Physical Book

Author

John Kennedy Toole

Publisher

Baidarka Boy

Language

English

Pages

422

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm

Weight

0.56 kg.

ISBN13

9780692572375

Synopsis "A Cornucopia of Dunderheads: A Parody of the Novel A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES by John Kennedy Toole, with a Foreword by Franz-Heinrich Katecki"

WHAT MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED TO IGNATIUS J. REILLY?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 fiancé, 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

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John Kennedy Toole (Nueva Orleans, Luisiana, 17 de diciembre de 1937-Biloxi, Misisipi, 26 de marzo de 1969) fue un novelista estadounidense, autor de La conjura de los necios (publicada póstumamente en 1980), obra ganadora del Premio Pulitzer de ficción en 1981. El autor se suicidó en 1969 a los 31 años tras no conseguir publicar esta novela, que fue editada con enorme éxito once años después por una editorial universitaria, Louisiana State University Press, gracias a la insistencia de la madre del autor, Thelma Toole (1901-1984)

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