by John Kennedy Toole · Grove Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780802132079
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«The Neon Bible» is John Kennedy Toole's coming-of-age novel, published by Grove Press in paperback (162 pages, in English).
David is a boy growing up in a small town in the American South; from the porch you can see the neon sign of a Bible illuminating the valley. Between first love, a religious revival, and sanctimonious, prejudiced neighbors, David loses his innocence and discovers the weight of faith, family, and intolerance in his surroundings.
Written by Toole at sixteen for a literary contest, it was first published in 1989. John Kennedy Toole won the Pulitzer Prize posthumously for «A Confederacy of Dunces».
Suitable for readers of coming-of-age novels and Southern fiction, and for admirers of John Kennedy Toole.
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.
