The novel's characters include Myrna Minkoff, a  woman transported from her native Bronx to New Orleans, the eccentric Mrs. Reilly, and her son Ignatius who,  lying in his flannel shirt in a back bedroom on Constantinople Street, is filling dozens of Big Chief tablets with  invective against the modern age.
Walker Percy was teaching at Loyola in 1976 when a woman presented him a badly smeared, scarcely readable  manuscript of a novel written during the early 60's by her son. The novel's characters include Myrna Minkoff, a  woman transported from her native Bronx to New Orleans, the eccentric Mrs. Reilly, and her son Ignatius who,  lying in his flannel shirt in a back bedroom on Constantinople Street, is filling dozens of Big Chief tablets with  invective against the modern age. FTP identify this perverse Pulitzer Prize winning comedy by John Kennedy  Toole.
Walker Percy was teaching at Loyola in 1976 when a woman presented him a badly smeared, scarcely readable  manuscript of a novel written during the early 60's by her son.
A Confederacy of Dunces