The Whalestoe Letters - by Mark Z Danielewski (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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. <p/>Originally contained within the monumental <i>House of Leaves</i>, 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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"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." <br>--Robert Kelly, <i>The New York Times Book Review</i><br><i> </i><br>"<i>The Whalestoe Letters</i> are dazzling." <br>--Steven Moore, <i>The Washington Post</i> <p/>"Danielewski has a songwriter's heart." <br>--John Freeman, <i>Time Out New York</i></p><br>
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