The author of Further Tales of the City pens the story of Gabriel Noone, a late-night radio host who is drawn into the life of a sexually abused 13-year-old boy.
As their friendship develops, troubling questions arise, exploding Noone's comfortable assumptions.
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.