Neon Bible and the heavy weight of

and the heavy weight of empire

adventurers

and "a literary phenomenon" by The New Yorker

But those who survive it experience long-term effects no one has ever seen before: utter contentment

Neon Bible and the heavy weight ofJohn 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