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conversations.value: Give me a plot for a book about Donna, Noone, Pete entitled The Night Listener.
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conversations.value: The Night Listener (film): Gabriel Noone (Robin Williams), a popular gay New York City radio show host, is dealing with a separation from his partner, Jess (Bobby Cannavale).\nNoone is given a memoir written by teenager Pete Logand (Rory Culkin), who chronicles the many years of sexual abuse he suffered at the hands of his parents and their friends.\nDiagnosed with AIDS, the youth has been adopted by Donna Logand (Toni Collette), the social worker who handled his case.\nNoone begins a telephone relationship with the boy and Donna.\nHe and Pete become increasingly close and form a father-son relationship, much to the dismay of Jess, especially after he speaks to Donna and suspects she and the boy are the same person.\nNoone's personal secretary Anna (Sandra Oh) adds fuel to the fire by discussing her research into people who fabricate elaborate stories to get attention.\nDetermined to prove the boy exists and his story is true, Noone decides to pay a surprise visit to Pete in his hometown in rural Wisconsin.\nNoone discovers the return address on Pete's correspondence is actually a mail drop.\nSoon after, while eating in a local diner, he overhears another patron and recognizes her voice as that of Donna.\nHe's stunned to learn she's blind and uses a guide dog.\nNoone follows her home and Donna senses he has followed her.\nShe invites him into her home and talks openly about Pete, who she says is currently in the hospital undergoing tests.\nShe assures him he can visit the boy the following day, then suddenly becomes angry and tells him she will not allow him to meet her son.\nIncreasingly suspicious, Noone contacts all the hospitals in Madison, the site of the nearest facilities, but none have the boy registered as a patient.\nNoone's paranoia about the boy's existence grows and, hoping to find proof of his existence, he breaks into Donna's home.\nA police officer arrests him for breaking and entering and then, mistakenly believing him to be one of the boy's abusers, attacks him with a stun baton before taking him to the station.\nNoone convinces the police he meant no harm and is released, only to find Donna waiting for him with the news that Pete is dead; also, that he was in a Milwaukee hospital, and was never in Madison.\nDistressed that Noone doesn't believe her, Donna collapses in the middle of a road and tries to hold him with her in the path of an oncoming truck.\nShe then moves everything out of her home and disappears before the police can question her.\nNoone is now convinced that the boy is a figment of the deranged woman's imagination.\nIn response to a phone call from Donna, Noone goes to a motel where she was staying, and finds Pete's stuffed rabbit and a videotape under a blanket.\nHe plays the video of a child, who seems to be Pete, but who could have been anyone.\nThe phone rings and the caller claims to be the boy, waiting for his mother at the airport.\nThe caller ends the conversation after Noone asks what happened in Donna's past and how she became blind.\nPete's voice changes to sound more womanly, just as the conversation is cut off.\nNoone returns to Manhattan and uses his experience to create The Night Listener, a new radio story.\nIn the final scene, Donna is searching for a new home in a coastal town, telling the realtor she needs it for herself and her son, who has just lost his leg but will be released the next day.\nShe has drastically changed her appearance and no longer has a guide dog or dark glasses, revealing her blindness was also an act.
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conversations.value: Give me a plot for a book about Pete, Gabriel, Listener entitled The Night Listener.
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conversations.value: The Night Listener (novel): Gabriel Noone is a gay writer whose late-night radio stories have brought him into the homes of millions.\nNoone has recently separated from Jess, his partner of ten years.\nNoone\'s publisher sends him the galleys of a memoir apparently written by a 13-year-old boy, Peter Lomax.\nThe author claims to have been the victim of sexual abuse and infected with AIDS.\nAccording to his memoir, his father started beating him at two and raped him at four; his mother videotaped the "sessions".\nWhen he was eight years old, his parents started pimping him and selling videotapes.\nWhen Pete was age 11, he ran away with the pornographic tapes, and his parents were jailed.\nA psychologist named Donna Lomax took the boy in and eventually adopted him.\nNoone contacts the boy and they start exchanging a series of phone calls that develop into a kind of father/son relationship.\nHe begins to suspect that Pete does not exist and that he and his memoir are fabrications by Donna.\nEven a visit to their home is inconclusive, and the novel ends with Gabriel feeling that the value of the relationship to him is more important than whether or not Pete is real.\nSubplots in the novel revolve around Gabriel\'s relationships with his lover and his father.\nImportant themes are the nature of father/son relationships, the power struggle involved in caring for and being cared for by another, the embellishment of truth, and the secrets we keep even in the most intimate relationships.