The accomplished and evocative first novel by the Pulitzer
Prize-winning author of A Confederacy of Dunces. John Kennedy Toole
wrote The Neon Bible for a literary contest at the age of sixteen.
The manuscript was finally published twenty years after Toole's
death. The Neon Bible opens with the narrator, a young man named
David, on a train, leaving the small Southern town he's grown up in
for the first time. What unspools is the tender and tragic
coming-of-age story of a lonely child, a story that revolves around
David's unorthodox friendship with his great-aunt Mae - a former
stage performer who is fiercely at odds with the conservative
townspeople - and the everyday toll of living in an environment of
religious fanaticism. 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.
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