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The Neon Bible
Published by Viking / Penguin Group, London, 1989
ISBN 10: 0670829080ISBN 13: 9780670829088
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket by Joanna Ciechanowska (illustrator). 1st Edition. First UK edition, first impression. Some edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, small closed tear to top front jacket, corners very slightly rubbed. Not price clipped (£12.99), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy. 162pp. American author John Kennedy Toole (1939-69), wrote 'The Neon Bible' for a literary contest at the age of sixteen. The manuscript was finally published twenty years after Toole's death from suicide. 'The Neon Bible' opens with a young man named David on a train, leaving the small Southern town he's grown up in for the first time. What unspools is the tender and tragic coming of age story of a lonely child, a story that revolves around David's unorthodox friendship with his great aunt Mae, a former stage performer who is fiercely at odds with the conservative townspeople, and the everyday toll of living in an environment of religious fanaticism. From the opening lines of 'The Neon Bible', David is fully alive, naive yet sharply observant, drawing us into his world through the sure artistry of John Kennedy Toole, author of his other posthumously published novel 'A Confederacy of Dunces'.
