num_pages: 162
description: David's father goes off to war, leaving David and his mother to fight poverty and shame on their own in a small Southern town.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.
language: English
title: The Neon Bible
titlecomplete: The Neon Bible
genres: Fiction, Religion, American, Coming Of Age, The United States Of America, Literature, Classics, Novels, Southern, Southern Gothic
ratings_count: 7242
publisher: Grove Weidenfeld