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.
- ISBN10 0375714413
- ISBN13 9780375714412
- Publish Date 10 October 2000
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Random House USA Inc
- Imprint Pantheon
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 104
- Language English
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780375714412