A Confederacy of Dunces

In mid-century New Orleans, Ignatius J. Reilly, a bloated, belligerent medievalist who lives with his mother, is forced to find work after a traffic-court disaster. He takes jobs in a degenerate clothing factory and as a hot-dog vendor, all the while filling Big Chief tablets with denunciations of modernity and schemes to reform the city. Around him move his long-suffering mother, the bartender of the Night of Joy, a hapless policeman, a downtrodden factory clerk, and a would-be political agitator. The novel is a comic picaresque whose collisions expose class, race, and sexual hypocrisy in one city's streets, bars, and workplaces.

Bound in red and yellow picture printed textured paper. Red slipcase printed in black with images.