The Whalestoe Letters
From House of Leaves
$25.24
- Paperback
104 pages
- Release Date
6 April 2001
Summary
Between 1982 and 1989, Pelafina H. Li vre 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
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780375714412 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0375714413 |
| Author: | Mark Z. Danielewski |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Pantheon Books Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 104 |
| Release Date: | 6 April 2001 |
| Weight: | 108g |
| Dimensions: | 206mm x 125mm x 8mm |
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Critics Review
“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
About The Author
Mark Z. Danielewski
Mark Z. Danielewski was born in 1966.
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