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Title	:	The Neon Bible
Author	:	John Kennedy Toole
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special 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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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

Toole committed suicide at the age of 32, leaving behind two unpublished novels and an impressively determined mother who succeeded after much badgering in gaining the novelist Walker Percys interest and support in the manuscript of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

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.

Yeah, I've placed this on the back-burner a several times before. Why? Since "Confederacy" takes up such a large portion of my heart, my soul, I absolutely knew in my bones that this, Toole's first effort into novel-writing (& the only other one-- he wrote solely two), would suck. Of course it would. And the beginning trembles, and the plot is thin, and the observations somewhat... pedestrian? But it is nonetheless exactly what John Kennedy Toole fans like myself would die for: testament of

Bittersweet SixteenIt would be a significant literary achievement to write a convincing novel from the perspective of a sixteen year old narrator. It would be an even greater achievement, as here, if the author too was sixteen years old.This novel is relatively straightforward in the way it unravels the plot. It's conventional and linear, until at the end you discover that it's actually circular. However, like "Stoner", one thing it does well is create pathos, although in this case there is

John Kennedy Toole wrote this when he was sixteen years old. He later dismissed it as adolescent, however, I think it shows promise. That promise was fulfilled in his novel A Confederacy of Dunces, which was published posthumously. He committed suicide in 1969 at the age of 31 after his novel was rejected. Such a loss.

The neon bible by john Kennedy toole I would like to comment on the composition o f the book written in the opposite Of the colour metaphors that are used in the scripts of movies & TV series It mentioned the book TO KILL A MOCKING BIRD... I love the crispness of the characters the clarity of the grammar I could recall my fav parts of the book ( the neon bible) but, then that would be reciteting and not reviewing ..My other favotite was A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN pre 1920 a another story of