Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Martin combines his skills as a writer of dark suspense (Lie to Me Tap, Tap) and literary novels (The Beginning of Sorrows) to make Pelikan a carnival ride to enlightenment.

In Pelikan, David Lozell Martin, acclaimed thriller writer and author of a literary classic, The Crying Heart Tattoo, has created something reminiscent of A Confederacy of Dunces with the kind of oddball characters and sense of place found in Carl Hiaasen and Elmore Leonard. That Charlie would eventually join this seducer in a hurricane-whipped burglary has more to do with loyalty than larceny. A pimp who arranges sex parties, he also serves as a paladin for nuns he hustles and scams but will also bathe and feed the most wretched of the homeless cruel and manipulative (he manages to break Charlie's heart and his finger), Pelikan is so obsessed by redemption that he'll use a toothbrush to clean sidewalks outside St. The book was turned down by successive editors including. Although unschooled, James Joseph Pelikan delivers outrageous riffs on such topics as the Mississippi River's being America's alimentary canal.and what that makes New Orleans. Toole, who killed himself in 1969 aged 31, wrote A Confederacy of Dunces while doing national service in Puerto Rico in the early 1960s. Charlie is barely off the train when he witnesses the murder of one of Pelikan's cronies by a woman whose only adornment is a fishhook through her lower lip. A Confederacy of Dunces (Penguin Modern Classics) Kindle Edition by John Kennedy Toole (Author), Walter Percy (Foreword) Format: Kindle Edition 4,699 ratings See all formats and editions Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 27.95 32 Used from 13.32 28 New from 19.51 1 Collectible from 60. The journey begins when thirty-three-year-old Charlie Curtis travels to New Orleans on a deathbed assignment from his father to find the father's half-brother - James Joseph Pelikan, who rules the French Quarter from midnight until dawn in places where tourists seldom venture.

Pelikan is one of the rarities of modern fiction: rousing and well written, a book with humor that never insults intelligence even as it outrages propriety.

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