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The Whalestoe Letters: From House of Leaves
Between 1982 and 1989, Pelafina H. Lièvre sent her son, Johnny Truant, a series of letters from The Three Attic Whalestoe Institute, a psychiatric facility in Ohio where she spent the final years of her life. Beautiful, heartfelt, and tragic, this correspondence reveals the powerful and deeply moving relationship between a brilliant though mentally ill mother and the precocious, gifted young son she never ceases to love.
Originally contained within the monumental House of Leaves, this collection stands alone as a stunning portrait of mother and child. It is presented here along with a foreword by Walden D. Wyhrta and eleven previously unavailable letters.
Book Details
- Publisher: Pantheon Books
- Publish Date: Oct 10th, 2000
- Pages: 104
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.10in - 4.90in - 0.40in - 0.25lb
- EAN: 9780375714412
- Categories: • Literary• Family Life - General• Psychological
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Praise for this book
"From the madhouse, Johnny Truant's mother writes some of the most tender, chilling, faux-psychotic writing I've ever read. This dangerous, lucid, confused but very eloquent lady . . . is playful, apologetic, crazed, paranoid, self-abasing, cunning--a tigress with a gift for gab."
--Robert Kelly, The New York Times Book Review
"The Whalestoe Letters are dazzling."
--Steven Moore, The Washington Post
"Danielewski has a songwriter's heart."
--John Freeman, Time Out New York