Mark Z. Danielewski's The whalestoe letters
By: [edited] by Pelafina H. Lièvre ; with a foreword by Walden D. Wyrhta.
Contributors: Lièvre, Pelafina.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 83
Subjects: Psychiatric hospital patients -- Fiction.; Mentally ill women -- Fiction.; Mothers and sons -- Fiction.; Ohio -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Other titles: Whalestoe letters
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."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Originally contained in appendix II-E of House of leaves; also includes 5 additional letters.