The Neon Bible
John Kennedy Toole—who won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for his best-selling comic masterpiece A Confederacy of Dunces—wroteThe 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...
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John Kennedy Toole—who won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for his best-selling comic masterpiece A Confederacy of Dunces—wroteThe 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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Format: Textbook
ASIN: 9780802132079
Publish date: 12-01-1994
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
American,
Family,
Religion,
Coming Of Age,
Southern,
Gothic,
Southern Gothic,
Fiction
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