Imprint: Black Swan
Published: 01/10/2001
ISBN: 9780552142403
Length: 368 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 23mm x 127mm
Weight: 251g
RRP: £9.99
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.
Imprint: Black Swan
Published: 01/10/2001
ISBN: 9780552142403
Length: 368 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 23mm x 127mm
Weight: 251g
RRP: £9.99
'A tremendous, hugely satisfying read'
'Absorbing, sophisticated, funny and touching'
'Elegantly conceived and executed, The Night Listener marks a long overdue return to fiction by one of America's best-loved writers...a real page-turner'
'His most mature, mellow and moving novel yet'
'A mystery studded with elegant twists and turns'