- Boys, Fiction, Bildungsromans, prejudice
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.
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Classical in form, grave, prestige and contemplative.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- John Kennedy Toole
- First published
- 1989
- Pages
- 176
- Publisher
- Penguin, Grove Press, Círculo de Lectores
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- English, French, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780140239270
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On Open Library, 11 have read it and 13 want to.
“because I start to think too much in the dark about what's back in the house. They must have turned the heat off too.”
John Kennedy Toole (December 17, 1937 – March 26, 1969) was an American novelist from New Orleans, Louisiana, whose posthumously published novel *A Confederacy of Dunces* won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was a big success. He also wrote *The Neon Bible.* Although several people in the literary world felt his writing skills were praiseworthy, Toole's novels were rejected during his lifetime. After suffering from paranoia and depression due in part to these failures, he died by suicide at the age of 31.
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