The Neon Bible

Resumen del libro

The accomplished and evocative first novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Confederacy of Dunces. John Kennedy Toole wrote The Neon Bible for a literary contest at the age of sixteen. The manuscript was finally published twenty years after Toole's death.

The Neon Bible opens with the narrator, 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.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p x{0026}lt;strong John Kennedy Toolex{0026}lt;/strong nació en Nueva Orleans en 1937 y murió en 1969. La publicación póstuma de x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em La conjura de los neciosx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong , editada en Compactos al igual que su primera novela x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em La Biblia de neónx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong , le consagró como uno de los mejores novelistas norteamericanos de todos los tiempos. Anagrama también ha publicado la biografía del autor, x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Una mariposa en la máquina de escribirx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong , escrita por Cory MacLauchlin.x{0026}lt;/p