false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169411275m/40153.jpg 40153 3 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.<br><br>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. 2813846 10 10 2000 The Whalestoe Letters total:235|5:58|4:89|3:72|2:12|1:4| 235 890 441 22 3 0 false false Tue Sep 22 10:05:19 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 10:08:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 28 14:31:55 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 08 23:10:29 -0700 2008 House of Leaves, and this book, almost in its entirety, is included in the appendix of House.

Where I will give this book props, though, is in the additional introduction. There are also several additional letters, but they weren't missed in th...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Apr 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 04 14:08:45 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 06 08:56:46 -0700 2009 House of Leaves. ]]> 4 0 false false Sun Aug 09 16:59:46 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 09 17:01:34 -0700 2009 1 0 false false Tue Nov 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 14:35:05 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 03 13:43:14 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Wed May 20 14:20:39 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 14:21:31 -0700 2009 House of Leaves and I feel like there wasn't enough new material here to justify excising it from the source novel and repackaging it as a separate entity. ]]> 4 0 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Jul 31 10:17:42 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 31 12:06:02 -0700 2007 House of Leaves, these are the letters of Johnny Truant's mother, written from the institution (Whalestone) where she lived, from the day she tried to kill her son to the day she died. The letters are wonderful and strange, drifting in and out of sanity. Johnnt Truant's mo...more...]]> 1 0 false false Tue May 05 10:40:58 -0700 2009 Tue May 05 10:41:48 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Apr 03 11:18:36 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 03 11:19:10 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Mon Jul 14 09:19:59 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 14 10:06:07 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Jun 06 22:10:19 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 06 22:10:37 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 28 15:33:44 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 28 15:33:44 -0700 2007 3 0 false false Mon Jul 16 00:55:33 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 16 00:57:44 -0700 2007 House of Leaves but...what?...that would have been too much? COME ON!]]> 5 0 false false Tue Mar 27 10:01:11 -0700 2007 Tue Mar 27 10:01:55 -0700 2007 House of Leaves, so it's cool that they excerpted it into a little book of its own.]]> 5 0 true false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Tue Mar 13 10:05:18 -0700 2007 Tue Mar 13 10:06:01 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Mon May 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat May 10 19:00:36 -0700 2008 Sun May 11 14:33:36 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Sep 13 19:36:11 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 13 19:37:07 -0700 2007 3 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Tue Jul 24 18:17:18 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 02 14:21:15 -0700 2007 House of Leaves but really, it's pretty pointless. ]]> 4 0 false false Sun Oct 26 23:57:49 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 26 23:58:07 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Jan 18 14:07:19 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 18 14:07:19 -0800 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=40153