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The Beautiful Room Is Empty

by Edmund White

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Publisher Comments:

When the narrator of White's poised yet scalding autobiographical novel first embarks on his sexual odyssey, it is the 1950s, and America is "a big gray country of families on drowsy holiday." That country has no room for a scholarly teenager with guilty but insatiable stirrings toward other men. Moving from a Midwestern college to the Stonewall Tavern on the night of the first gay uprising--and populated by eloquent queens, butch poseurs, and a fearfully incompetent shrink--The Beautiful Room is Empty conflates the acts of coming out and coming of age.

"With intelligence, candor, humor--and anger--White explores the most insidious aspects of oppression.... An impressive novel."--Washington Post book World

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780679755401
Author:
White, Edmund
Publisher:
Vintage Books USA
Location:
New York :
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Gay
Subject:
Gay men
Subject:
Gay men, Fiction
Subject:
Autobiographical fiction
Subject:
Bildungsromans
Subject:
Literature-A to Z
Copyright:
c198
Edition Description:
Trade paper
Series:
Vintage International
Series Volume:
907
Publication Date:
19941031
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
240
Dimensions:
7.98x5.18x.64 in. .56 lbs.
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