The neon bible

Synopsis

John Kennedy Toolewho 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 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."