A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole Paperback / softbackOne of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World''My favourite book of all time it stays with you long after you have read it for your whole life, in fact' Billy ConnollyA monument to sloth, rant and contempt, a behemoth of fat, flatulence and furious suspicion of anything modern this is Ignatius J. Reilly of New Orleans, noble crusader against a world of dunces. The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged. Ignatius ignores them,
sadness and uncertainty in paediatric intensive care
and Brielle reconciles with ex Pavao
it could also be the last
he bounds from Elizabethan England and imperial Turkey to the modern world
These are poems that teach endurance "in the face of all that won't / be saved" while still finding much in the world "to cherish / as it brinks
nowhere is this more acute than in birds
a comic about dinosaurs finding meaning
I love this book so much
to his death on the eve of the Cold War in 1950-a life played out against a background of two world wars
alongside stylish interiors
who encourages us to see the holiness and beauty of wilderness and what we must do to protect these gifts
makes this book the ultimate field guide