Få ubegrenset tilgang til over 600 000 spennende og underholdende lyd- og e-bøker. Avslutt når du vil.
Prøv gratis i 14 dager“A moving evocation of the small-town South in the mid-twentieth century” that “belongs on the shelf with the works of Flannery O’Connor, Carson McCullers, and Eudora Welty” (Orlando Sentinel).
John Kennedy Toole—who won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for his best-selling comic masterpiece A Confederacy of Dunces—wrote The Neon Bible for a literary contest at the age of sixteen. The manuscript languished in a drawer and became the subject of a legal battle among Toole’s heirs. It was only in 1989, thirty-five years after it was written and twenty years after Toole’s suicide at thirty-one, that this amazingly accomplished and evocative novel was freed for publication.
“Heartfelt emotion, communicated in clean direct prose … a remarkable achievement. ” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
“John Kennedy Toole’s tender, nostalgic side is as brilliantly effective as his corrosive satire. If you liked To Kill A Mockingbird you will love The Neon Bible. ” —Florence King
“Shockingly mature… . Even at sixteen, Toole knew that the way to write about complex emotions is to express them simply. ” —Kerry Luft, Chicago Tribune
© 2007 Grove Press (E-bok): 9780802197320
Utgivelsesdato
E-bok: 1. desember 2007
“A moving evocation of the small-town South in the mid-twentieth century” that “belongs on the shelf with the works of Flannery O’Connor, Carson McCullers, and Eudora Welty” (Orlando Sentinel).
John Kennedy Toole—who won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for his best-selling comic masterpiece A Confederacy of Dunces—wrote The Neon Bible for a literary contest at the age of sixteen. The manuscript languished in a drawer and became the subject of a legal battle among Toole’s heirs. It was only in 1989, thirty-five years after it was written and twenty years after Toole’s suicide at thirty-one, that this amazingly accomplished and evocative novel was freed for publication.
“Heartfelt emotion, communicated in clean direct prose … a remarkable achievement. ” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
“John Kennedy Toole’s tender, nostalgic side is as brilliantly effective as his corrosive satire. If you liked To Kill A Mockingbird you will love The Neon Bible. ” —Florence King
“Shockingly mature… . Even at sixteen, Toole knew that the way to write about complex emotions is to express them simply. ” —Kerry Luft, Chicago Tribune
© 2007 Grove Press (E-bok): 9780802197320
Utgivelsesdato
E-bok: 1. desember 2007
Kos deg med ubegrenset tilgang til mer enn 600 000 titler.
Generell vurdering basert på 1 anmeldelser
Skummel
Trist
Uforutsigbar
Last ned appen for å skrive anmeldelser av bøker.
Norsk
Norge