The Neon Bible (Unabridged)
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3.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
John Kennedy Toole - who won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for his best-selling comic masterpiece A Confederacy of Dunces - wrote The Neon Bible for a literary contest at the age of 16. The manuscript languished in a drawer and became the subject of a legal battle among Toole's heirs. It was only in 1989, 35 years after it was written and 20 years after Toole's suicide at 31, that this amazingly accomplished and evocative novel was freed for publication.
Customer Reviews
Disappointing
Knowing this was written when the author was 16, I certainly didn’t expect something that rivaled Confederacy. If measured strictly as the work of a 16-year-old, this is well written enough. If measured against nearly any other piece of fiction, it’s terrible. It’s dull and underdeveloped and the narrator makes it mind-numbingly boring.