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The Whalestoe Letters

From House of Leaves

By Mark Z. Danielewski

By Mark Z. Danielewski

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Oct 10, 2000 | ISBN 9780375714412

The Whalestoe Letters by Mark Z. Danielewski
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Oct 10, 2000 | ISBN 9780375714412

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About The Whalestoe Letters

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.

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About Mark Z. Danielewski

MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI was born in New York City and lives in Los Angeles. He is the author of House of Leaves, The Whalestoe Letters, Only Revolutions, The Fifty Year Sword, and The Familiar.http://www.markzdanielewski.com/

Product Details

Category: Literary Fiction

Paperback | $11.95
Published by Pantheon
Oct 10, 2000 | 104 Pages | 5 x 8-1/8 | ISBN 9780375714412

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Praise

“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

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