The Night Listener

by Armistead Maupin | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0552142409 Global Overview for this book
Registered by kinedi of Rushyford, County Durham United Kingdom on 9/17/2007
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Journal Entry 1 by kinedi from Rushyford, County Durham United Kingdom on Monday, September 17, 2007
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 moves and challenges Maupin's readers as never before

Journal Entry 2 by kinedi from Rushyford, County Durham United Kingdom on Thursday, March 20, 2008
This book deals with a lot of sensitive issues in a very brave and emotional manner (I was at times crying my eyes out) and it has so many twists and turns that until you read the epilogue you really don't know what's true/real -- and maybe even then you don't know for sure. Armistead Maupin deals with so many different emotions...love, grief, loss, deception (if that is the right word), death...and I felt completely drawn into the story.
It once again proved to me what a brilliant storyteller he is and how he wonderfully creates all these very different yet very believable characters.

Wee note : This copy has a few printing errors and on some pages in the middle section the last few sentences seem to be missing off the page but you can still easily follow the storyline.

Journal Entry 3 by kinedi from Rushyford, County Durham United Kingdom on Thursday, March 20, 2008
As found on Wikipedia :

The Night Listener is a roman à clef, inspired by Maupin's real-life experiences surrounding the Anthony Godby Johnson hoax.[25][26][27][18] He says that he aimed to create a solid psychological thriller, while being able to put autobiographical elements in it.[4] The issues he addresses include his break-up with his long-term partner and his relationship with his father. The book very lightly references the Tales world via Gabriel Noone's assistant, who is one of DeDe Halcyon-Day's twins from Tales. It was serialised on the internet, on salon.com, prior to its print publication.[4] The Night Listener has been adapted into a movie that was screened at the Sundance Film Festival in late January 2006 and released by Miramax the following August

Journal Entry 4 by kinedi from Rushyford, County Durham United Kingdom on Tuesday, December 2, 2008
On loan to a friend

Journal Entry 5 by kinedi at Rushyford, County Durham United Kingdom on Wednesday, September 6, 2017

Released 7 yrs ago (9/6/2016 UTC) at Rushyford, County Durham United Kingdom

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