John Kennedy Toole

The Neon Bible (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"A moving evocation of the small-town South in the mid-twentieth century" that "belongs on the shelf with the works of Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers, and Eudora Welty" ( Orlando Sentinel). John Kennedy Toole-who won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for his best-selling comic masterpiece A Confederacy of Dunces-wrote The 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. "Heartfelt emotion, communicated in clean direct prose... a remarkable achievement." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "John Kennedy Toole's tender, nostalgic side is as brilliantly effective as his corrosive satire. If you liked To Kill A Mockingbirdyou 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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Grove Press
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780802197320
• Artikelnr.: 38238655

Autorenporträt

Nick Sullivan, a Tennessee native, has worked extensively on Broadway and at many theaters throughout the United States. His television credits include 30 Rock, The Good Wife, All My Children, and all three Law & Order series. He has recorded over three hundred audiobooks and received numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards.