The Neon Bible
By: John Kennedy Toole ; introduction by W. Kenneth Holditch.
Edition: BOMC
Publisher: Grove Weidenfeld; Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9780802111081
Copyright date: 1989
Subjects: Boys -- Fiction.; Southern States -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: The first novel by the Pulizer Prize-winning author of A Confederacy Of Dunces. David is a young boy growing up in a small Southern town in the 1940s. From his porch, David can see the whole valley, including the neon Bible that lights up the sky, emblem of the God-fearing folk who snub his family because Poppa can't afford the church dues.