The Neon Bible by John Toole
John Kennedy Toole--who won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for his best-selling comic masterpiece A Confederacy of Dunces--wroteThe 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.
John Kennedy Toole was born in 1937 and died in 1969 in New Orleans. He got a master's degree from Columbia University after graduating from Tulane University and taught at Hunter College, the University of Southwestern Louisiana, and Dominican College. While stationed in Puerto Rico and teaching English to new recruits, he wrote much of the initial draft of A Confederacy of Dunces.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780802132079 |
| ISBN 10 | 0802132073 |
| Title | The Neon Bible |
| Author | John Toole |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Grove Press |
| Year published | 1994-01-12 |
| Number of pages | 162 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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