As he recounts in his foreword to the published work, initially he read with great hesitation, but “in this case I read on. She forced him to take a copy of the manuscript and made him promise to read it. Eventually she found her way to the office of renowned author Walker Percy, who was teaching in the English department at Loyola University New Orleans. After his death, his mother, Thelma, made repeated attempts to get her son’s novel published. This failure, combined with an increasing sense of paranoia, produced a deteriorating mental state which culminated in his suicide in March 1969. Although the book was written in 1963, Toole was unsuccessful in getting it published.
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