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Toole's lunatic and sage novel introduces one of the most memorable characters in American literature, Ignatius Reilly, whom Walker Percy dubs "slob extraordinaire, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thomas Aquinas rolled into one." Set in New Orleans, A Confederacy of Dunces outswifts Swift, one of whose essays gives the book its title. As its characters burst into life, they leave the region and literature forever changed by their...
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Jak daleko można si� posun�ć, by oszukać los? Theo Decker cudem ratuje si� z wybuchu. Z ruin muzeum wykrada niewielki, dziwnie fascynuj�cy obraz. Ulubiony obraz matki, któr� stracił w zamachu. Szczygieł b�dzie towarzyszył Theo w podróży: od ekskluzywnych apartamentów przy Park Avenue po rozpust� półświatka w Las Vegas.Przez zakurzony labirynt podupadaj�cego nowojorskiego antykwariatu po ciemne zak�tki Amsterdamu. Obraz,...
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The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged as well. Ignatius ignores them as he heaves his vast bulk through the city's fleshpots in a noble crusade against vice, modernity and ignorance. But his momma has a nasty surprise in store for him. Ignatius must get a job. Undaunted, he uses his new-found employment to further his mission and now he has a pirate costume and a hot-dog cart to do it with.
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"With this brilliant novel, the bestselling author of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh and Wonder Boys gives us an exhilarating triumph of language and invention, a stunning novel in which the tragicomic adventures of a couple of boy geniuses reveal much about what happened to America in the middle of the twentieth century. Like Phillip Roth's American Pastoral or Don DeLillo's Underworld, Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is a...
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