Title: Mark Z. Danielewski's The whalestoe letters /
Authors: Danielewski, Mark Z.; Lièvre, Pelafina.
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Year: 2000
Subjects: Psychiatric hospital patients Fiction; Mentally ill women Fiction.; Mothers and sons Fiction; Ohio Fiction.
Abstract: "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."--Publisher's description.