Its wholly possible that this is just a part of her insanity, but Im inclined to think theres something internally metatextual about this, given the fact similar metatextual indicators appear elsewhere in the book, such as the airway indicators. Wyhrta and eleven previously unavailable letters. The Whalestoe Letters still remain something of a mystery to me. It is presented here along with a foreword by Walden D. Originally contained within the monumental House of Leaves, this collection stands alone as a stunning portrait of mother and child. 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. 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. Steven Moore, The Washington Post "Danielewski has a songwriter's heart."īetween 19, Pelafina H. Robert Kelly, The New York Times Book Review is playful, apologetic, crazed, paranoid, self-abasing, cunning-a tigress with a gift for gab."
This dangerous, lucid, confused but very eloquent lady. 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. "From the madhouse, Johnny Truant's mother writes some of the most tender, chilling, faux-psychotic writing I've ever read.
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