| The Neon Bible Contributor(s): Toole, John Kennedy (Author) |
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ISBN: 0802132073 ISBN-13: 9780802132079 Publisher: Grove Press OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1994 Annotation: The first novel by the Pulizer Prize-winning author of A Confederacy Of Dunces. David is a young boy growing up in a small Southern town in the 1940s. From his porch, David can see the whole valley, including the neon Bible that lights up the sky, emblem of the God-fearing folk who snub his family because Poppa can't afford the church dues. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Small Town & Rural - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 88026074 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.5" W x 8.2" (0.40 lbs) 176 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |