Product Information
Few storytellers in America write with such unerring insight and honesty as Armistead Maupin. Now he has given us his most ambitious and daringly imaginative work, The Night Listener, a novel as spoken-word serial, including an original musical score. Gabriel Noone is a fabulist, a writer whose late-night radio tales have brought him into the homes of millions. In the midst of a painful, unwanted separation from his longtime love, Gabriel reads the extraordinary memoir of Pete Lomax, an ailing thirteen-year-old boy who suffered horrific abuse at the hands of his parents. Pete is not only a gifted diarist but also a devoted listener of Gabriel's show. And thus begins an extraordinary phone friendship. Then, out of the blue, troubling new questions arise, exploding Gabriel'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. This unprecedented audio project is as thought-provoking as it is mesmeric. The Night Listener is a meditation on the power of voices and the faith we place in them, and an extraordinary audio experience from an American literary icon.Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-100694524212
ISBN-139780694524211
eBay Product ID (ePID)1822010
Product Key Features
Publication Year2000
TopicGeneral
Book TitleNight Listener
LanguageEnglish
GenreFiction
AuthorArmistead Maupin
Dimensions
Item Height1.1in.
Item Length5.1in.
Item Weight11.2 Oz
Item Width5.1in.
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal813.54
Edition DescriptionUnabridged Edition,Abridged Edition