Title: The Night Listener
First published: July 25, 2006
Description: "I'm a fabulist by trade," warns Gabriel Noone, a late-night radio storyteller, as he begins to untangle the skeins of his tumultuous life: 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.
Subjects: Fiction, Fiction, psychological, Abused children, Authors, Fathers and sons, Gays, Radio broadcasters, Sick children, Father figures, Boys, Adopted children, Large type books, Child abuse, Friendship, Sexually abused children, Separated persons, Intergenerational relations, Interpersonal relations, Kærlighed, Bøsser, Homoseksualitet, USA, Følelser, Radio programs, LGBTQ novels, Stonewall Book Awards, New York Times reviewed, Enfants adoptés, Romans, nouvelles, Garçons, Radiodifusión, Novela, Niños maltratados, Niños enfermos, Muchachos