Copyright © 1989 by W. Kenneth Holditch, Marion Toole Hosli, Sharon H. Muniz, Althea Toole Farley, and Mary Toole McGuire
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Toole, John Kennedy, 1937-1969.
The neon bible / by John Kennedy Toole.
p. cm.
ISBN-10: 0-8021-3207-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-3207-9
PS3570.054N46 1989 88-26074
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