The Whalestoe Letters: From House of Leaves

ISBN-13: 9780375714412 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 104 str.

Mark Z. Danielewski

Opis

Between 1982 and 1989, Pelafina H. Lievre 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."

Recenzje

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.
Robert Kelly, The New York Times Book Review
 
The Whalestoe Letters are dazzling.
Steven Moore, The Washington Post
 
Danielewski has a songwriter s heart.
John Freeman, Time Out New York

O autorze

Mark Z. Danielewski wurde 1966 als Sohn des polnischen Filmregisseurs Tad Danielewski geboren. An seinem Debütroman "House of Leaves", das alsbald zum Kultbuch avancierte, hat er über zehn Jahre gearbeitet. Seine Schwester, die Sängerin/Songwriterin Poe, hat zu dem Roman das Erfolgsalbum "Haunted" veröffentlicht. Sein zweiter Roman, "Only Revolutions", wurde für den National Book Award nominiert.