The Beautiful Room Is Empty
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- Synopsis
- 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
- Copyright:
- 1988
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 241 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780307764461
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780679755401
- Publisher:
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Date of Addition:
- 03/09/12
- Copyrighted By:
- Edmund White
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.