Name: The Whalestoe Letters
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Author: Mark Z. Danielewski
ISBN: 9780375714412

Type

Physical Book

Author

Mark Z. Danielewski

Publisher

Pantheon

Year

2000

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

ISBN

0375714413

ISBN13

9780375714412

Edition No.

Synopsis "The Whalestoe Letters"

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.

Mark Z. Danielewski

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Mark Z. Danielewski es un escritor estadounidense. Estudió Literatura en la Universidad de Yale y cursó estudios cinematográficos en la School of Cinema-Television de California. Su obra se caracteriza por ser experimental en la forma, de un modo intrincado y con varios estratos narrativos, con variaciones tipográficas y diseños de página inconsistentes, algo también conocido como escritura visual. Es uno de los grandes representantes de la literatura ergódica. En 2006 fue finalista del National Book Award gracias a su segunda novela, Only Revolutions.

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