The Neon Bible

The Neon Bible

• Author: Toole, John Kennedy.
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Pages: 162
• Publication Date: 1994
• Edition: Reprint
• Binding: Paperback
• MSRP: 16
• ISBN13: 9780802132079
• ISBN: 0802132073
• Other ISBN: 9780802197320
• Other ISBN Binding: print
• Language: en
• Quality Rating: 1
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<div>John Kennedy Toole—who won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for his best-selling comic masterpiece <I>A Confederacy of Dunces</I>—wrote<I>The Neon Bible</I> 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.<BR></div>