Conspiracy of Dunces

A Conspiracy of Dunces, the third in Shaw''s Pistol Thicket trilogy, is a rollicking send-up of John Kennedy Toole''s 1980 Pullitzer Prize winning A Confederacy of Dunces. Ignatius P. Reilly, a product of Ignatius J''s New Orleans neighborhood, is a 270 pound college star whose NFL destiny is sidetracked by a football injury. Not to be diminished, I.P. is sped upon a godly mission by his church,...