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Confederacy of Dunces (Essential Penguin 2)

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This is a hilarious and embarrassing coming of age tail. The protagonist lives with is mother well beyond his years and drives her to drink with his antics. He is an overweight misfit with very strong opinions and very few marketing stills that must find a job to make some money to keep his mother for going to jail for crashing her car into a house. The set of outrageous characters, the outdated chivalry of the protagonist in contrast to his vulgar, slovenly, and gluttonous appearance and his intense focus on some valve in his stomach make for some hilarious antics as this crazy character is launched into the working world. I laughed out loud the many times. I also drank in the kind of New York/New Orleans connected cultures and characters which abound - most of them quite odd.

What an amazing book! I haven't read anything I've enjoyed this thoroughly in at least a year.

One of my favoorite books of all time. Delivered promptly and in perfect condition.
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