by John Kennedy Toole · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422634775
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The Neon Bible is a novel by American author John Kennedy Toole, published posthumously. The story is set in the American South and explores themes of religion, prejudice, and the loss of innocence through the eyes of a young boy. The novel offers a critical look at Southern society and its values, with a narrative style that combines humor and melancholy.
John Kennedy Toole was an American novelist from New Orleans, Louisiana, whose posthumously published novel, A Confederacy of Dunces, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981. At 16 in 1954, he wrote his first novel, The Neon Bible, which he shelved in the same year, not finding a willing publisher; he later dismissed it as "adolescent". Toole was a successful and popular professor, first at University of Southwestern Louisiana, then Hunter College, and finally St. Mary's Dominican College in New Orleans. Having persuaded Simon & Schuster, however, to accept A Confederacy of Dunces, he was unable to resolve editorial disputes. Due in part to the novel's failure, he suffered from paranoia and depression, dying by suicide at the age of 31.
