Written when John Kennedy Toole was 16 and published after he committed suicide in his early 30's this book is completely different in tone to 'Confederacy of Dunces' which is also a brilliant novel. 'The Neon Bible' is a simple but often incredibly moving tale of the coming of age of a teenage b...
El protagonista de esta novela es uno de los personajes más memorables de la literatura norteamericana: Ignatius Reilly, quien a los treinta años vive con una estrafalaria madre, ocupado en escribir una extensa y demoledora denuncia contra nuestro siglo, tan carente de "teología y geometría" como...
While I was teaching at Loyola in 1976 I began to get telephone calls from a lady unknown to me. What she proposed was preposterous. It was not that she had written a couple of chapters of a novel and wanted to get into my class. It was that her son, who was dead, had written an entire novel duri...