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Neon Bible

Neon Bible

by JohnKennedyToole (Author)

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    Paperback 2000

    $18.40

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    Hardcover 1990

    $3.47
Synopsis

John Kennedy Toole--who won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for his best-selling comic masterpiece A Confederacy of Dunces--wroteThe Neon Bible for a literary contest at the age of sixteen. The manuscript languished in a drawer and became the subject of a legal battle among Toole's heirs. It was only in 1989, thirty-five years after it was written and twenty years after Toole's suicide at thirty-one, that this amazingly accomplished and evocative novel was freed for publication.

$18.40

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18 in stock

More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 176
 Edition: Reprint
 Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Published: 24 Nov 2000
ISBN 10: 0802132073
ISBN 13: 9780802132079

Media Reviews
Heartfelt emotion, communicated in clean direct prose . . . a remarkable achievement. --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

A powerful novel that belongs on the shelf with the works of Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers, and Eudora Welty. It is a moving evocation of the small-town South in the mid-twentieth century, and it is an expertly crafted tale of an adolescent boy finding the courage to make the decisions to change his life. --William McKeen, Orlando Sentinel

John Kennedy Toole's tender, nostalgic side is as brilliantly effective as his corrosive satire. If you liked To Kill A Mockingbird you will love The Neon Bible. --Florence King

Shockingly mature. . . . Even at sixteen, Toole knew that the way to write about complex emotions is to express them simply. --Kerry Luft, Chicago Tribune