La Biblia de Neon

A neon Bible lights up the sky at night, and during the day religious fanaticism and malevolence wreak havoc on the lives of the townspeople. The protagonist's father, a teenager living in a squalid town in the Deep South, loses his job and can no longer pay his church dues, marking the beginning of a decline that will turn them into outcasts within the small community. 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. 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.