Donald Harington called this grand Pulitzer Prize-winning picaresque work “the funniest novel of the twentieth century.” The brazen, befuddled antihero, Ignatius J. Reilly, is an involuntarily entertaining, completely mislead, yet strangely likable student of a man still living in his mother's home in New Orleans. Due to a number of mishaps as he searches for a job, Ignatuis is forced to work as a pirate-costumed hot dog vendor and a secretary. Coming into contact with strippers, philanderers, and other comedic characters, Ignatius complains about the imbecility of people and ponders his greatest achievement, "The Journal of a Working Boy."
