International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award 2002

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, Peter Lomax is not only a brave and gifted diarist but also a devoted listener to Noone's show. When Noone phones the boy to offer encouragement, it soon becomes clear that Peter sees in this heartsick, middle-aged storyteller the loving father he's always wanted. Thus begins an extraordinary friendship that only grows deeper 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.

The Night Listener	Nominated ISBN: 006017143X	Find out more about the author on the following websites: Author profile Salon review of The Night Listener An excerpt from The Night Listener
by
Armistead Maupin

Nominated by:
Pikes Peak Library, Colorado Springs, U.S.A

Books nominated for the 2002 Award
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