{"product_id":"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":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57317250433406,"sku":"NW9781611854985","price":11.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781611854985.jpg?v=1778699480","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/neon-bible","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}