{"product_id":"the-whalestoe-letters-isbn-9780375714412","title":"The 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally contained within the monumental \u003ci\u003eHouse of Leaves\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cp\u003e“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.” \u003cbr\u003e—Robert Kelly, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Whalestoe Letters\u003c\/i\u003e are dazzling.” \u003cbr\u003e—Steven Moore, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Danielewski has a songwriter’s heart.” \u003cbr\u003e—John Freeman, \u003ci\u003eTime Out New York\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMark Z. Danielewski was born in 1966.","brand":"Pantheon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304696828133,"sku":"NP9780375714412","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780375714412.jpg?v=1767742184","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-whalestoe-letters-isbn-9780375714412","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}