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The Neon Bible

John Kennedy Toole

Paperback | Pages: 162 pages

Rating: 3.71 | 5807 Users | 446 Reviews

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Title	:	The Neon Bible
Author	:	John Kennedy Toole
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 162 pages
Published	:	January 12th 1994 by Grove Press (first published 1989)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Novels. Literature. American

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The Neon Bible tells the story of David, a young boy growing up in a small Southern town in the 1940s. David's voice is perfectly calibrated, disarmingly funny, sad, shrewd, gathering force from page to page with an emotional directness that never lapses into sentimentality. Through it we share his awkward, painful, universally recognizable encounter with first love, we participate in boy evangelist Bobbie Lee Taylor's revival, we meet the pious, bigoted townspeople. From the opening lines of The Neon Bible, David is fully alive, naive yet sharply observant, drawing us into his world through the sure artistry of John Kennedy Toole. John Kennedy Toole, who won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for his best-selling comic masterpiece A Confederacy of Dunces, wrote The 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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Original Title:	The Neon Bible
ISBN:	0802132073 (ISBN13: 9780802132079)
Edition Language:	English

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Toole committed suicide at the age of 32, leaving behind two unpublished novels and an impressively determined mother who succeeded after much badgering in gaining the novelist Walker Percys interest and support in the manuscript of A Confederacy of Dunces. As we know, this was then published to instant and great acclaim and has been continuously in print ever since, and translated into numerous languages.While The Neon Bible was in fact written before A Confederacy of Dunces, it only came to

Clean. Concise. Haunting. This book stays with you. A fantastic novel, made all the more so taking into account the age of the writer. Written with more honesty and emotion than many writers twice his age are capable of. Even discounting Conspiracy of Dunces, this book alone makes Toole's eventual suicide all the more tragic. One of the biggest losses of potential in modern American literature.

For those of you who were fans of A Confederacy of Dunces, Toole's other posthumously published work is a very different, but equally brilliant, work. Where Confederacy really shines through as a comic masterpiece with larger than life characters, The Neon Bible is a serious story told in some of the most emotional language I've ever seen come across a printed page. Where Confederacy is all about the farcical nature of human being, in The Neon Bible, Toole captures human emotion in an almost

I read a number of books written from the perspective of teenagers and most of the were cringy. It took a lot of suspension of disbelief from my part to actually read the words as thought and delivered by teens. Teens have a certain interior world which we tend to forget pretty fast once we grow up. And I think this is why I liked this book so much. It was believe-able, it was raw, it was authentic. It was probably not easy at all to write, since, apart from being narrated from a 16-year-old's

They should teach this in school, it should especially be required reading for any child growing up in a small town!Every bit on par with To Kill a Mockingbird or his other better known masterpiece Confederacy of Dunces as a Great American Novel.A short and engaging read, yet a curiously absorbing page turner for what one might initially expect to be a rather sedate slice of life style glimpse into conservative rural hillbilly youth in a bygone era. Also makes some significant comments upon

John Kennedy Toole's first novel (published posthumously) is not too dissimilar from today's YA novels: A boy disillusioned with society, tries to escape it but it never happens.It is a depressing book and yet so powerful. Don't forget that Toole was 16 when he wrote this and it is precocious. However it is definitely a sign of his talents as a writer and his ability to be viciously satirical. Later on when Toole wrote A Confederacy of Dunces he developed a funny bone and that suited him more

Toole's Confederacy of Dunces is one of my favorite books of all time...but for some reason I'd never read this one. I LOVED IT. You won't get the rollicking, satirical, character-stuffed experience of COD--The Neon Bible is a much quieter book, spacious and spare and cruel and tender, a Southern Gothic masterpiece. If you like Carson McCullers and Kaye Gibbons (and I do, so much!) then you'll love this book.