Neon Bible

Neon Bible Synopsis

';A moving evocation of the small-town South in the mid-twentieth century' that ';belongs on the shelf with the works of Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers, and Eudora Welty' (Orlando Sentinel). John Kennedy Toolewho won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for his best-selling comic masterpieceA Confederacy of Dunceswrote The Neon Biblefor 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. ';Heartfelt emotion, communicated in clean direct prose... a remarkable achievement.' Michiko Kakutani,The New York Times ';John Kennedy Toole's tender, nostalgic side is as brilliantly effective as his corrosive satire. If you likedTo Kill A Mockingbirdyou will loveThe Neon Bible.' Florence King ';Shockingly mature.... Even at sixteen, Toole knew that the way to write about complex emotions is to express them simply.' Kerry Luft,Chicago Tribune

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