The Whalestoe Letters

The Whalestoe Letters

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  • Author: Mark Z. Danielewski
  • Publisher: Pantheon
  • ISBN: 0375714413
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 106

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.


House of Leaves

House of Leaves

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  • Author: Mark Z. Danielewski
  • Publisher: Pantheon
  • ISBN: 0375420525
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 738

“A novelistic mosaic that simultaneously reads like a thriller and like a strange, dreamlike excursion into the subconscious.” —The New York Times Years ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper, parts of which would occasionally surface on the Internet. No one could have anticipated the small but devoted following this terrifying story would soon command. Starting with an odd assortment of marginalized youth -- musicians, tattoo artists, programmers, strippers, environmentalists, and adrenaline junkies -- the book eventually made its way into the hands of older generations, who not only found themselves in those strangely arranged pages but also discovered a way back into the lives of their estranged children. Now this astonishing novel is made available in book form, complete with the original colored words, vertical footnotes, and second and third appendices. The story remains unchanged, focusing on a young family that moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something is terribly wrong: their house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. Of course, neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of that impossibility, until the day their two little children wandered off and their voices eerily began to return another story -- of creature darkness, of an ever-growing abyss behind a closet door, and of that unholy growl which soon enough would tear through their walls and consume all their dreams.


Only Revolutions

Only Revolutions

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  • Author: Mark Z. Danielewski
  • Publisher: Pantheon
  • ISBN: 0375421769
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 386

Moving back and forth in American history, a kaleidoscopic novel follows Hailey and Sam, two wayward teenagers, as they crash New Orleans parties, barrel up the Mississippi, head through the Badlands, and take on other adventures.


The Familiar, Volume 1

The Familiar, Volume 1

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  • Author: Mark Z. Danielewski
  • Publisher: Knopf
  • ISBN: 0375714952
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 890

From the author of the international best seller House of Leaves and National Book Award–nominated Only Revolutions comes a monumental new novel as dazzling as it is riveting. The Familiar (Volume 1) ranges from Mexico to Southeast Asia, from Venice, Italy, to Venice, California, with nine lives hanging in the balance, each called upon to make a terrifying choice. They include a therapist-in-training grappling with daughters as demanding as her patients; an ambitious East L.A. gang member contracted for violence; two scientists in Marfa, Texas, on the run from an organization powerful beyond imagining; plus a recovering addict in Singapore summoned at midnight by a desperate billionaire; and a programmer near Silicon Beach whose game engine might unleash consequences far exceeding the entertainment he intends. At the very heart, though, is a twelve-year-old girl named Xanther who one rainy day in May sets out with her father to get a dog, only to end up trying to save a creature as fragile as it is dangerous . . . which will change not only her life and the lives of those she has yet to encounter, but this world, too—or at least the world we think we know and the future we take for granted. (With full-color illustrations throughout.) Like the print edition, this eBook contains a complex image-based layout. It is most readable on e-reading devices with larger screen sizes.


Letters From Burma

Letters From Burma

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  • Author: Aung San Suu Kyi
  • Publisher: Penguin UK
  • ISBN: 0141039531
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 224

Letters from Burma - an unforgettable collection from the Nobel Peace prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi In these astonishing letters, Aung San Suu Kyi reaches out beyond Burma's borders to paint for her readers a vivid and poignant picture of her native land. Here she celebrates the courageous army officers, academics, actors and everyday people who have supported the National League for Democracy, often at great risk to their own lives. She reveals the impact of political decisions on the people of Burma, from the terrible cost to the children of imprisoned dissidents - allowed to see their parents for only fifteen minutes every fortnight - to the effect of inflation on the national diet and of state repression on traditions of hospitality. She also evokes the beauty of the country's seasons and scenery, customs and festivities that remain so close to her heart. Through these remarkable letters, the reader catches a glimpse of exactly what is at stake as Suu Kyi fights on for freedom in Burma, and of the love for her homeland that sustains her non-violent battle. Includes an introduction from Fergal Keane 'Aung San Suu Kyi has become a global symbol of peaceful resistance, courage and apparently endless endurance' Guardian 'A real hero in an age of phony phone-in celebrity, which hands out that title freely to the most spoiled and underqualified' Bono, Time Aung San Suu Kyi is the leader of Burma's National League for Democracy. She was placed under house arrest in Rangoon in 1989, where she remained for almost 15 of the 21 years until her release in 2010, becoming one of the world's most prominent political prisoners. She is also the author of the collection of writings Freedom from Fear.


The Little Blue Kite

The Little Blue Kite

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  • Author: Mark Z. Danielewski
  • Publisher: Pantheon
  • ISBN: 152474770X
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 104

We all have fears, but if we can’t face the small ones how will we face the big ones? Kai is afraid to fly a little blue kite. But Kai is also very, very brave, and overcoming this small fear will lead him on a great adventure. Remember: all great adventures start with one little moment. You know the one. It’s like a gentle breeze whispering in your ear what you already know by heart: not even the sky is the limit . . . The only other thing you might want to know about this book is that there are at least three ways to read it. The first way takes only a few minutes. Just follow the rainbow-colored words. The second takes only a little bit longer. Just follow the words haloed with blue and red and the rainbow words too. For the third way, just start at the beginning.


Oliver Tree Vs Little Ricky ALIEN BOYS

Oliver Tree Vs Little Ricky ALIEN BOYS

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  • Author: Oliver Tree
  • Publisher: Simon and Schuster
  • ISBN: 1940878640
  • Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 67

Death-defying scooter stunts, Ukrainian tanks, sharks, monster trucks… these are just some of the indignities facing Oliver Tree as he is thrown into the meat grinder of the music industry to promote his debut retirement album "Ugly is Beautiful". Denied his chosen herbal medicine to overcome the aches and pains, Oliver threatens to retire, prompting his label to find an out-of-this world replacement in Little Ricky, an alien with a sick mix tape….and Oliver is forced to reckon with his own mortality in an epic battle that threatens to destroy them both.


Letters From The Earth

Letters From The Earth

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  • Author: Mark Twain
  • Publisher: Youcanprint
  • ISBN: 8892658379
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 57

The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before him rose the black night of Space, like a wall. His mighty bulk towered rugged and mountain-like into the zenith, and His divine head blazed there like a distant sun. At His feet stood three colossal figures, diminished to extinction, almost, by contrast -- archangels -- their heads level with His ankle-bone. When the Creator had finished thinking, He said, "I have thought. Behold!" He lifted His hand, and from it burst a fountain-spray of fire, a million stupendous suns, which clove the blackness and soared, away and away and away, diminishing in magnitude and intensity as they pierced the far frontiers of Space, until at last they were but as diamond nailheads sparkling under the domed vast roof of the universe. At the end of an hour the Grand Council was dismissed. They left the Presence impressed and thoughtful, and retired to a private place, where they might talk with freedom. None of the three seemed to want to begin, though all wanted somebody to do it.


The Fifty Year Sword

The Fifty Year Sword

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  • Author: Mark Z. Danielewski
  • Publisher: Pantheon
  • ISBN: 0307907724
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 290

In this story set in East Texas, a local seamstress named Chintana finds herself responsible for five orphans who are not only captivated by a storyteller’s tale of vengeance but by the long black box he sets before them. As midnight approaches, the box is opened, a fateful dare is made, and the children as well as Chintana come face to face with the consequences of a malice retold and now foretold.


Mark Z Danielewski's 'House of Leaves' and Deleuze and Guattari's Rhizome Theory

Mark Z Danielewski's 'House of Leaves' and Deleuze and Guattari's Rhizome Theory

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  • Author: Hazel Stuart
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  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 130

'House of Leaves' by Mark Z. Danielewski is a Postmodern, Poststructural novel that broke boundaries when it was published in 2000. Twenty four years earlier, in 1976, philosophers Deleuze and Guattari proposed a theoretical model for the ultimate Poststructural book form in their paper 'Introduction to the Rhizome'. In this highly regarded academic paper from 2002, Hazel Stuart puts forward her argument for why Danielewski's 'House of Leaves' can be regarded a novel of truly rhizomatic form.