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  Copyright

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  THE NIGHT LISTENER. Copyright © 2006 by Armistead Maupin. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions.

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  Document Outline

  Cover Image

  Title Page

  Dedication Page

  Epigraph Page

  Contents Chapter One: Jewelling the Elephant

  Chapter Two: The Noones

  Chapter Three: Life Isn't Radio

  Chapter Four: Roughhousing

  Chapter Five: Semaphore

  Chapter Six: Wayne

  Chapter Seven: A Guy Thing

  Chapter Eight: Don't Even go There

  Chapter Nine: More than Elephants

  Chapter Ten: The Monkey Wrench

  Chapter Eleven: A Little Like God

  Chapter Twelve: Laura

  Chapter Thirteen: Room for Disillusionment

  Chapter Fourteen: Stranger and Stranger

  Chapter Fifteen: Room Tone

  Chapter Sixteen: The Sandbar

  Chapter Seventeen: Just Turn the Page

  Chapter Eighteen: A Convenient Pseudonym

  Chapter Nineteen: Man's Country

  Chapter Twenty: The Shock of Recognition

  Chapter Twenty-One: Family Things

  Chapter Twenty-Two: Snow Blindness

  Chapter Twenty-Three: The Eleventh Hour

  Chapter Twenty-Four: The Idea of Him

  Chapter Twenty-Five: Giving Up the Ghost

  Chapter Twenty-Six: The Boo Daddy

  Chapter Twenty-Seven: No Epiphanies

  Chapter Twenty-Eight: My Old Room

  Chapter Twenty-Nine: Father, Son, and Holy Ghost

  Afterword

  Acknowledgments

  About the Author

  Praise

  Also by Armistead Maupin

  Credits

  Copyright Notice

  About the Publisher

 


 

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