Kevin's Watch

Has anyone else read this bizarre book? I just found out it will be a movie next year - this may be really good!
The author (John Kennedy Toole, I think. It's been a long time) killed himself without getting the book published, his Mother found the manuscript, submitted it and it won a Pulitzer prize. Extremely funny, though at times dark, book. Anyone else?

Never heard of it... I may have to pick it up though, it sounds good.

I started it once, several years ago, but got distracted and never finished it. I've always meant to pick it up again. It's one of my husbands favorite books. The parts I remember were very funny. We went to New Orleans recently, and there is a statue of Ignatius P. Reilly on Canal street. I think John Kennedy Toole was from there. Still a weird thing to find standing in the middle of the sidewalk though.

I always thought it was about Congress... hmmm...sounds much more interesting now...

can someone move this over to Joy's general literatue forum? thanks!

I've heard of it, and of the author's suicide, but I never have gotten around to reading it.