- 178 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
"A moving evocation of the small-town South in the mid-twentieth century" that "belongs on the shelf with the works of Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers, and Eudora Welty" (
Orlando Sentinel).
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John Kennedy Tooleāwho won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for his best-selling comic masterpieceĀ A Confederacy of Duncesāwrote The Neon BibleĀ 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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"Heartfelt emotion, communicated in clean direct proseĀ .Ā .Ā . a remarkable achievement." āMichiko Kakutani,Ā The New York Times
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"John Kennedy Toole's tender, nostalgic side is as brilliantly effective as his corrosive satire. If you likedĀ To Kill A MockingbirdĀ you will loveĀ The Neon Bible." āFlorence King
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"Shockingly mature.Ā .Ā .Ā . Even at sixteen, Toole knew that the way to write about complex emotions is to express them simply." āKerry Luft,Ā Chicago Tribune
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John Kennedy Tooleāwho won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for his best-selling comic masterpieceĀ A Confederacy of Duncesāwrote The Neon BibleĀ 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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"Heartfelt emotion, communicated in clean direct proseĀ .Ā .Ā . a remarkable achievement." āMichiko Kakutani,Ā The New York Times
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"John Kennedy Toole's tender, nostalgic side is as brilliantly effective as his corrosive satire. If you likedĀ To Kill A MockingbirdĀ you will loveĀ The Neon Bible." āFlorence King
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"Shockingly mature.Ā .Ā .Ā . Even at sixteen, Toole knew that the way to write about complex emotions is to express them simply." āKerry Luft,Ā Chicago Tribune
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Introduction
- One
- Two
- Three
- Four
- Five
- Six
- Seven
- Eight
- Nine
- Ten