In a dilapidated house on a hill outside town. David grows up shy and friendless: a reluctant outsider in the small-town Bible Belt of the 1940's. The God-fearing folk snub his family because
Poppa can't afford the church dues . Foul-breathed Mrs. Watkins of County Elementary School calls him a bad influence. And every night the preacher's neon Bible lights up - dominating the view from the hill just as the precher's meddlesome. bigoted brand of Christianity dominates the town. David's sole ally is Aunt Mae - magnificent, voluminous, yellow-haired Aunt Mae with her theatrical past, film start fantasies and outrageous gowns that (she tells David) have been lauded onstage from Charleston to New Orleans. 
John Kennedy Toole, whose comic masterpiece A Confederacy of Dunces won the Pulitzer Prize twelve years after his suicide at the age of 31. He wrote the Neon Bible when he was just 16. Suppressed for years by Toole's mother and the subject of a bitter legal wrangele among his heirs, it is now published in paperback for the first time.
162 pages

The Neon Bible

Literature & Fiction

John Kennedy Toole

Contemporary

Penguin Books, Ltd.

A Confederacy of Dunces (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)

The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged as well. Ignatius ignores them as he heaves his vast bulk through the city's fleshpots in a noble crusade against vice, modernity and ignorance. But his momma has a nasty surprise in store for him. Ignatius must get a job. Undaunted, he uses his new-found employment to further his mission and now he has a pirate costume and a hot-dog cart to do it with.

Confederacy of Dunces

Penguin??Books

The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged as well. Ignatius ignores them as he heaves his vast bulk through the city's fleshpots in a noble crusade against vice, modernity and ignorance. But his momma has a nasty surprise in store for him. Ignatius must get a job. Undaunted, he uses his new-found employment to further his mission - and now he has a pirate costume and a hot-dog cart to do it with ...

A Confederacy of Dunces (Penguin Modern Classics)

Genre Fiction

A Confederacy of Dunces

Literary

GROVE PRESS

A Confederacy of Dunces Lib/E

Barrett Whitener

Humor & Satire

Blackstone Publishing

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize“A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue.”The New York Times Book Review
A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero, one Ignatius J. Reilly, is "huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter. His story bursts with wholly original characters, denizens of New Orleans' lower depths, incredibly true-to-life dialogue, and the zaniest series of high and low comic adventures" (Henry Kisor, Chicago Sun-Times).

Grove Weidenfeld

A spectacular, Pultizer Prize-winning novel by a master of comedy, beloved by readers and critics alike. The place is the French Quarter, the characters, denizens of New Orleans's lower depths.

Louisiana State University Press

A popular Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy follows the adventures of New Orlean's lower denizens of the French Quarter.

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The Neon Bible

A Confederacy of Dunces (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)

The Neon Bible

Confederacy of Dunces

A Confederacy of Dunces (Penguin Modern Classics)

A Confederacy of Dunces

A Confederacy of Dunces Lib/E

A Confederacy of Dunces

Confederacy of Dunces

A Confederacy of Dunces