The Whalestoe Letters Paperback by Mark Z. Danielewski

Product Details

• Publisher: Pantheon (2000-10-10)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 104 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780375714412
• Item Weight: 124.74 grams
• Dimensions: 8.11 x 5.02 x 0.34 cm

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.

About the Author

Mark Z. Danielewski was born in 1966.