The Neon Bible
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 0802132073 / Publisher: Grove Press, January 1994
David's father goes off to war, leaving David and his mother to fight poverty and shame on their own in a small Southern town
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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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