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The Neon Bible by Toole, John Kennedy
by Toole, John Kennedy | PB | VeryGood
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- Condition
- Very Good
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- Binding
- Paperback
- Weight
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- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 9780802132079
- Book Title
- Neon Bibles
- Item Length
- 8.5in
- Publisher
- GROVE/Atlantic, Incorporated
- Publication Year
- 1994
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.5in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Literary, Coming of Age
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 7.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 176 Pages
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John Kennedy Toole, who won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for his best-selling comic masterpieceA Confederacy of Dunces, wroteThe Neon Biblefor 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.The Neon Bibletells the story of David, a young boy growing up in a small Southern town in the 1940s. David's voice is perfectly calibrated, disarmingly funny, sad, shrewd, gathering force from page to page with an emotional directness that never lapses into sentimentality. Through it we share his awkward, painful, universally recognizable encounter with first love, we participate in boy evangelist Bobbie Lee Taylor's revival, we meet the pious, bigoted townspeople. From the opening lines ofThe 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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Publisher
GROVE/Atlantic, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0802132073
ISBN-13
9780802132079
eBay Product ID (ePID)
166870
Product Key Features
Book Title
Neon Bibles
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Literary, Coming of Age
Publication Year
1994
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
176 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
7.4 Oz
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"Heartfelt emotion, communicated in clean direct prose . . . a remarkable achievement."--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "A powerful novel that belongs on the shelf with the works of Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers, and Eudora Welty. It is a moving evocation of the small-town South in the mid-twentieth century, and it is an expertly crafted tale of an adolescent boy finding the courage to make the decisions to change his life."--William McKeen, Orlando Sentinel "John Kennedy Toole's tender, nostalgic side is as brilliantly effective as his corrosive satire. If you liked To Kill A Mockingbird you will love The Neon Bible ."--Florence King "Shockingly mature. . . . Even at sixteen, Toole knew that the way to write about complex emotions is to express them simply."--Kerry Luft, Chicago Tribune, "Heartfelt emotion, communicated in clean direct prose . . . a remarkable achievement."-Michiko Kakutani,The New York Times "A powerful novel that belongs on the shelf with the works of Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers, and Eudora Welty. It is a moving evocation of the small-town South in the mid-twentieth century, and it is an expertly crafted tale of an adolescent boy finding the courage to make the decisions to change his life."-William McKeen,Orlando Sentinel "John Kennedy Toole's tender, nostalgic side is as brilliantly effective as his corrosive satire. If you likedTo Kill A Mockingbirdyou will loveThe Neon Bible."-Florence King "Shockingly mature. . . . Even at sixteen, Toole knew that the way to write about complex emotions is to express them simply."-Kerry Luft,Chicago Tribune, Heartfelt emotion, communicated in clean direct prose . . . a remarkable achievement."—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times A powerful novel that belongs on the shelf with the works of Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers, and Eudora Welty. It is a moving evocation of the small-town South in the mid-twentieth century, and it is an expertly crafted tale of an adolescent boy finding the courage to make the decisions to change his life."—William McKeen, Orlando Sentinel John Kennedy Toole's tender, nostalgic side is as brilliantly effective as his corrosive satire. If you liked To Kill A Mockingbird you will love The Neon Bible ."—Florence King Shockingly mature. . . . Even at sixteen, Toole knew that the way to write about complex emotions is to express them simply."—Kerry Luft, Chicago Tribune
Lccn
88-026074
Dewey Decimal
813.5/4
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
20
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Yes
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