num_pages: 83
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Whalestoe Letters
titlecomplete: The Whalestoe Letters
characters: Johnny Truant
genres: Literary Fiction, Novels, Adult Fiction, Poetry, Literature, Horror, Fantasy, Adult, Mystery, Fiction
ratings_count: 2534
publisher: Pantheon