The Night Listener by Armistead Maupin

Synopsis

Gabriel Noone is a writer whose late night radio stories have brought him into the homes of millions Noone is in the midst of a painful separation from his lover of ten years when a publisher sends him proofs of a remarkable book: the memoir of a sickly thirteen-year-old boy who suffered horrific sexual abuse at the hands of his parents Now living with his adoptive mother Donna Pete Lomax is not only a brave and gifted diarist but a devoted listener of Noone`s show When Noone phones the boy to offer encouragement it soon becomes clear that Pete sees in this heartsick middle-aged storyteller the loving father he`s always wanted Thus begins an extraordinary friendship that grows deeper only as the boy`s health deteriorates freeing Noone to unlock his innermost feelings Then out of the blue troubling new questions arise exploding Noone`s comfortable assumptions and causing his ordered existence to spin wildly out of control As he walks a vertiginous line between truth and illusion he is finally forced to confront all his relationships - familial romantic and erotic As complex and hypnotically engrossing as the best of mysteries "The Night Listener" is an astonishing tour de force that will move and challenge Maupin`s readers as never before --> Genre: Literary Fiction Literary Works

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