The Night Listener

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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