The Beautiful Room Is Empty
of Edmund White
Series: The Edmund Trilogy #2
Description
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.
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 240 pages
- Publisher Vintage
- Publication Date October 4th 1994
- First Publication 10/30/88
- Language English
- ISBN 9780679755401
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
- Scenario ['New York City, New York (United States)', 'New York State (United States)', 'Detroit, Michigan (United States)']
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