The Neon Bible: A NovelOpen Road + Grove/Atlantic, 2007 M12 1 - 178 páginas “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 |
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... girl with black hair and a feather in it . She looked cross - eyed to me , but Aunt Mae said that was only where the paper had touched up the picture wrong . She read me what it said under the picture : " Mae Morgan , popular singer at ...
... girl with black hair and a feather in it . She looked cross - eyed to me , but Aunt Mae said that was only where the paper had touched up the picture wrong . She read me what it said under the picture : " Mae Morgan , popular singer at ...
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... girl playing in his store . I never had a chance to see what Aunt Mae was doing because she had a feather boa that hid her face from me . But I think she winked back at the men . She wore her skirts to her knees , too , and I remember ...
... girl playing in his store . I never had a chance to see what Aunt Mae was doing because she had a feather boa that hid her face from me . But I think she winked back at the men . She wore her skirts to her knees , too , and I remember ...
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... girls in town began to wear their hair that way . Aunt Mae was very proud of this and mentioned it to Mother all the time . She tried to get Mother to wear her hair that way too , but she never succeeded . So I felt that things had gone ...
... girls in town began to wear their hair that way . Aunt Mae was very proud of this and mentioned it to Mother all the time . She tried to get Mother to wear her hair that way too , but she never succeeded . So I felt that things had gone ...
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... girl . But I knew that nurses never sang like that . I didn't like George from the first time I saw him . His hair was long and gray , and it was always greasy . There were red marks all over his face , and it was a very lean one . He ...
... girl . But I knew that nurses never sang like that . I didn't like George from the first time I saw him . His hair was long and gray , and it was always greasy . There were red marks all over his face , and it was a very lean one . He ...
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... girl's mother made some kind of complaint . So here I am riding on this train . It's still dark out except for neon signs we pass sometimes . The last town went by too fast for me to see the name . The clicking on the rails is getting ...
... girl's mother made some kind of complaint . So here I am riding on this train . It's still dark out except for neon signs we pass sometimes . The last town went by too fast for me to see the name . The clicking on the rails is getting ...
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Términos y frases comunes
alright Amos n anymore anyway asked Aunt Mae told band began blood Bobbie Lee Taylor boys breeze chairs church cinders Clyde comic books Confederacy of Dunces county seat crying dark David door drugstore everything eyes face Farney Farney's feel felt floor Flora flowers friends front getting girls hair hand hear heard hills hush puppies Jean Harlow Jee-sus Jo Lynne John Kennedy Toole kitchen knew laughed letter lived looked Lynne Mae's Main Street Miss Moore move movie Nashville Neon Bible never nice night oilcloth Orleans pines plant played Poppa porch preacher pretty quiet radio scared sing sitting smell started stopped talking tell things thought told Aunt Mae tonight took town train truck turned upstairs valley wait walked wanted watched Watkins Williams window woman women wondered
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Página 132 - If you were different from anybody in town, you had to get out. That's why everybody was so much alike. The way they talked, what they did, what they liked, what they hated ... They used to tell us in school to think for yourself, but you couldn't do that in the town. You had to think what your father thought all his life, and that was what everybody thought, (p.
Página xi - This is the first time I've been on a train. I've sat in this seat here for about two or three hours now. I can't see what's passing by. It's dark now, but when the train left, the sun was just beginning to set, and I could see the red and brown leaves and the tanning grass all along the hillside.
Página 53 - They had Rita Hayworth too, but she was always in Technicolor, and her hair was the reddest I ever saw. We saw Betty Grable in this movie about Coney Island. It looked like a wonderful place, and Aunt Mae told me she had been there and that it was down on the Gulf.
Página 49 - Tonight wasn't like the night before when it had been so still in the valley. A breeze was starting that soon turned into a wind. It was nice to sit on the steps and watch the pines on the far hills swaying against the sky. I looked around at Aunt Mae. Her yellow hair was flying all over her eyes, but she didn't move to straighten it.
Página 127 - She didn't know she was the only thing I ever wanted to have that I thought I'd get.
Página 15 - The clicking on the rails is getting faster, and I can see the trees crossing the moon quick now. The years before I went to school passed by just about as quick as those trees are passing by the moon.
Página 103 - I heard her asking Mother where Flora was. Mother was sitting at the table looking at the picture of the white crosses. Aunt Mae asked her again. She looked up like she was surprised to see Aunt Mae.
Página 34 - David, and we'll pray that your mother feels well tomorrow and that nothing happens to your Poppa tonight and that you and I ... that you and I won't be hurt too bad tomorrow or ever again.
Página 5 - Sometimes she would grab me and hug me close right between her bosom so that I was almost smothered. Then she would kiss me with her big mouth and leave lipstick marks all over me.