num_pages: 342
description: “With rare authority, humor and stunning grace, Armistead Maupin (Tales of the City) explores the risks and consolations of intimacy while illuminating the mysteries of the storytelling impulse. Noone’s will to make the world more gorgeous, dramatic and satisfying than it is betrays much about the measure of the human heart.” — Chicago Tribune "I'm a fabulist by trade," warns Gabriel Noone, a late-night radio storyteller, as he begins to untangle the skeins of his tumultuous his crumbling ten-year love affair, his disaffection from his Southern father, his longtime weakness for ignoring reality. Gabriel's most sympathetic listener is Pete Lomax, a thirteen-year-old fan in Wisconsin whose own horrific past has left him wise and generous beyond his years. But when this virtual father-son relationship is rocked by doubt, a desperate search for the truth ensues. Welcome to the complex, vertiginous world of The Night Listener....
language: English
title: The Night Listener
titlecomplete: The Night Listener
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Queer, LGBT, Thriller, Gay Fiction, Novels, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Gay
ratings_count: 5636
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Stonewall Book Award
category: Literature
publisher: Harper Perennial