Whalestoe Letters
  • Published:
    Oct-2000
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    Print / eBook
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    104
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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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    • First Edition
    • Oct-2000
    • Pantheon (UK)
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0375714413
    • ISBN13: 9780375714412



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