Night Listener, The - Couverture souple

Maupin, Armistead

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 006093090X ISBN 13 : 9780060930905

Editeur : Harper Perennial, 2001

Synopsis

Book by Maupin Armistead

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

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 the memoir of a thirteen-year-old boy who suffered horrific abuse at the hands of his parents.

Pete Lomax is not only a brave and gifted diarist but a devoted listener to 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 only grows deeper as the boy's health deteriorates.

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 the tightrope between truth and illusion, he is finally forced to confront all his relationships - familial, romantic and erotic.

'His most mature, mellow and moving novel yet' Independent

'A mystery studded with elegant twists and turns' New York Times Book Review

'A complex meditation on the frailty of fact and perspective' The Australian

'A tremendous, hugely satisfying read' Time Out

'Absorbing, sophisticated, funny and touching' Sunday Times

Quatrième de couverture :

'His most mature, mellow and moveing novel yet' Independent

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 the memoir of a thirteen-year-old boy who suffered horrific abuse at the hands of his parents.

Pete Lomax is not only a brave and gifted diarist but a devoted listener to Noone's show. When Noone phones the boy to offer encouragement, it soon becomes clear that Pete sees in this heart-sick, 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.

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 the tightrope between truth and illusion, he is finally forced to confront all his relationships - familial, romantic and erotic.

'A mystery studded with elegant twists and turns' New York Times Book Review

'A tremendous, hugely satisfying read' Time Out

'Absorbing, sophisticated, funny and touching' The Sunday Times

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Harper Perennial
• Date d'édition: 2001
• ISBN 10: 006093090X
• ISBN 13: 9780060930905
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 363