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The Neon Bible by John Kennedy Toole (Paperback, 1994)

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Product Description : John Kennedy Toolewho won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for his bestselling comic masterpiece A Confederacy of DunceswroteThe 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 Tooles heirs It was only in 1989 thirtyfive years after it was written and twenty years after Tooles suicide at thirtyone that this amazingly accomplished and evocative novel was freed for publication

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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.