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The Neon Bible is John Kennedy Toole 's first novel, written at the age of 16. The novel is a bildungsroman about a callow youth named David in rural Mississippi during the late 1930s to early 1950s. He learns of religious, racial, social, and sexual bigotry in the narrator's ten strongest memories, one memory per chapter.
- John Kennedy Toole
- 1989
Box office. $78,072. The Neon Bible is a 1995 drama film written and directed by Terence Davies, based on the novel of the same name by John Kennedy Toole. The film is about a boy named David ( Jacob Tierney) coming of age in Georgia in the 1940s.
Rent The Neon Bible on Prime Video, or buy it on Prime Video. In 1940s Georgia, teenager David (Jacob Tierney) boards a train and escapes the destitute town in which he was raised.
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- Gena Rowlands
- Terence Davies
- Drama
Mar 1, 1996 · Based on John Kennedy Toole's novel, the film follows a teenage boy's memories of his childhood in a small town in 1940s Georgia. The film explores themes of religion, sexuality, and identity, but may be hard to follow for those who have not read the book.
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- Drama
- Terence Davies
- 1996-03-01
Jan 1, 2001 · John Kennedy Toole. 3.76. 7,468ratings614reviews. Kindle $2.99. The Neon Bible tells the story of David, a young boy growing up in a small Southern town in the 1940s. David's voice is perfectly calibrated, disarmingly funny, sad, shrewd, gathering force from page to page with an emotional directness that never lapses into sentimentality.
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Jan 12, 1994 · The Neon Bible. Paperback – January 12, 1994. John Kennedy Toole who won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for his best-selling comic masterpiece A Confederacy of Dunces wroteThe Neon Bible for a literary contest at the age of sixteen.
- John Kennedy Toole
A film about a young boy's coming of age in rural Georgia during the 1940s, based on the novel by A Confederacy of Dunces author. The Neon Bible features stunning cinematography, a nostalgic score and a cast of veteran actors.
