Ignatius Rising

<p>The phenomenal success of John Kennedy Toole's comic masterpiece A Confederacy of Dunces is now legendary a story that has long beckoned a deeper exploration into the life imagination and demise of the writer responsible for one of American literature's most memorable characters -- Ignatius J. Reilly. In Ignatius Rising Ren? Pol Nevils and Deborah George Hardy present the first biography of Toole drawing upon scores of interviews with contemporaries of the writer and acquaintances of his influencing mother Thelma as well as unpublished letters documents and photographs. Frank yet sympathetic Ignatius Rising deftly describes a life that is dark tragic bizarre and amazing -- but luminous with the gift of laughter a life not unlike those of Toole's beloved characters now loved the world over.</p>