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The Night Listener is a 2000 roman à clef by Armistead Maupin.The novel's plot is based on the author's interaction with Anthony Godby Johnson, the purported author of a book, A Rock and a Hard Place: One Boy's Triumphant Story, both before and after Anthony is suspected of being a hoax.
The book received good reviews. [3] [4] The Horn Book Magazine described it as a "story crammed with baffling word puzzles, a dozen zany characters, uproariously funny situations, and unmitigated slapstick." [1] It has fun with language, and helps young readers with clues in liberally dispersed footnotes.
While waitressing, she meets Leon Posen, a famous, much older author, and begins a relationship with him. Leon uses Franny’s childhood, including Cal's death, as material for a best-selling novel titled Commonwealth. When Albie, a troubled drifter, reads the book and realizes it is about his life, he is furious and seeks out Leon.
Eastern Leon County saw roughly 10-12 inches of rain. While other schools across Leon County opened an hour later, Godby was forced to keep its doors closed Thursday and Friday after ...
Arterius "Seven" Pickens was the only citizen honored at the Leon County Sheriff's Office's Friday afternoon award ceremony. Godby student earns LCSO honor for rushing to help fallen, bleeding 90 ...
In 1992, the author was sent the manuscript of a memoir allegedly written by fourteen-year-old Anthony Godby Johnson, who had been sexually and physically abused by his parents since childhood. Since the galleys included a foreword by novelist Paul Monette , a close friend of Maupin's, and an afterword by Fred Rogers (of Mister Rogers ...
In the span of a month, Godby students missed out on five days of school, which amounts to about 30 hours of instruction time, coming dangerously short of the state's requirement.
Not in Our Genes: Biology, Ideology and Human Nature is a 1984 book by the evolutionary geneticist Richard Lewontin, the neurobiologist Steven Rose, and the psychologist Leon Kamin, in which the authors criticize sociobiology and genetic determinism and advocate a socialist society. Its themes include the relationship between biology and ...