[motexva]

I don't know you might be mixing this up with another story. Walker Percy is the author who got COD published, as I recall in his forward the mother was very enthusiastic about publishing it, and shopped it around for years in an effort to get it published. I seem to remember Percy writing he felt he may have been one of the only ones to read it, because anyone who did would have recognized the book's brilliance.

[Hegewisch Dupa]

No Motex -what you recounted is the story for Confederacy, but it's kind of the opposite for Neon Bible. Toole's mother did her best to prevent it from being published - and managed to, til her death.