{"product_id":"the-neon-bible-by-john-kennedy-toole-9781611854985","title":"The Neon Bible","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohn Kennedy Toole wrote \u003cem\u003eThe Neon Bible\u003c\/em\u003e for a literary contest at the age of sixteen. The manuscript was finally published twenty years after Toole's death.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Neon Bible\u003c\/em\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the opening lines of \u003cem\u003eThe Neon Bible\u003c\/em\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\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46717756244204,"sku":"9781611854985","price":24.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/24483663482761.jpg?v=1754474756","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/the-neon-bible-by-john-kennedy-toole-9781611854985","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}