Used. Paperback. Meet Ignatius J. Reilly, a pompous medievalist marooned in modern New Orleans with a towering intellect, zero ambition, and an urgent aversion to gainful employment. Armed with a flapping green hunting cap and a profound disdain for twentieth-century geometry and theology, our gargantuan hero bounces haphazardly from one employment disaster to the next. John Kennedy Toole’s Pulitzer-winning picaresque populates the French Quarter with an unforgettable carnival of low-lifes, eccentric entrepreneurs, and long-suffering mamas. It’s a delightfully deranged comedy of errors that skewers societal pretension while remaining utterly, laugh-out-loud human.