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  2. 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
  3. 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.

  4. Mar 23, 2021 · Despite the book being grossly underexplored, The Neon Bible works well as a case-in-point to address concerns about the South’s representation. The Neon Bible comes across as a touching coming-of-age story that critiques and calls attention to stereotypes about the American South.

  5. Jan 1, 2001 · The publishing history of The Neon Bible is a gothic horror of bureaucratic proportions, wherein arcane inheritance laws in Louisiana despoiled Toole’s mother’s ability to determine the novel’s fate. And only upon a series of lawsuits after her death did the book finally see the light of day.

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  6. Apr 5, 1996 · “The Neon Bible” is not like any other period coming-of-age-in-the-South movies you’ve ever seen. It’s not just that John Kennedy Toole’s story takes a darker turn than most, but that it ...

  7. Dec 31, 1994 · A story based on the remarkable first novel of the same name by the then 16-year-old John Kennedy Toole, who went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction with the humorous A Confederacy Of...

  8. Sep 17, 2021 · By Richard Brody. September 17, 2021. The director Terence Davies turns “The Neon Bible” into a personal story by ricochet, a vision of the American culture that refined and expanded his own...

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