The Neon Bible

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The Neon Bible

The Neon Bible

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3.77 (8,113 Ratings by Goodreads)
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Published: 12 January, 1994
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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.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780802132079
ISBN10 0802132073
Number Of Pages 176
Item Weight 209 g
Publisher / Reseller Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Format paperback
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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

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