{"product_id":"the-neon-bible-john-kennedy-toole","title":"The Neon Bible - John Kennedy Toole","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe accomplished and evocative first novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Confederacy of Dunces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Bubble\/Old School Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55684725866876,"sku":null,"price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/8930\/2764\/files\/TNB-JKT-01.jpg?v=1756414434","url":"https:\/\/bookbubble.co.uk\/products\/the-neon-bible-john-kennedy-toole","provider":"Book Bubble\/Old School Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}