by John Kennedy Toole · Edicions de la Magrana · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788474104479
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«La Biblia de neón» is the novel by John Kennedy Toole published by Edicions de la Magrana in paperback, with 157 pages.
In the American South, David grows up in a poor community dominated by religious fanaticism. When his father loses his job, the family falls into disgrace. Only his aunt Mae, an eccentric former singer, brings him some joy; after a romantic disappointment and a violent episode, David sets out to seek a new life far away.
Edition published in 1989; the original English title is «The Neon Bible».
It is suitable reading for those who enjoy Southern fiction, American classics, and coming-of-age novels.
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.
