{"product_id":"the-neon-bible","title":"Neon Bible","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe accomplished and evocative first novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eA Confederacy of Dunces\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Kennedy Toole wrote\u003ci\u003e The Neon Bible \u003c\/i\u003efor a literary contest at the age of sixteen. The manuscript was finally published twenty years after Toole's death.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Neon Bible\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Neon Bible\u003c\/i\u003e, David is fully alive, naive yet sharply observant, drawing us into his world through the sure artistry of John Kennedy Toole.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Grove Press \/ Atlantic Monthly Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32138385326163,"sku":"9781611854985","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781611854985_7f884faf-3e2d-4999-a4a8-f91566de78e6.jpg?v=1776859226","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/the-neon-bible","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}