- title derives from Jonathan's Swift epigraph "When a true genius appears in the world, you may know hi by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."
- central character is Ignatius J. Reillly, an educated but slothful 30-year old man still living with his mother
- in his quest for employment he has various adventures with colorful New Orleans French Quarter characters
The Neon Bible
- novel is a bildungsroman about a young man named David and his gradual learning of religious, racial, social and sexual bigotry
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