The Night Listener
Armistead Maupin
Random House
<span>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.</span><br><span></span><span>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.</span><br><span></span><span>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.</span><br><span></span><span>As complex and hypnotically engrossing as the best of mysteries, </span><span>The Night Listener </span><span>is an astonishing tour de force that moves and challenges Maupin's readers as never before.</span>