
The Beautiful Room Is Empty: A Novel (Lambda Literary Award)
by
Edmund White
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780679755401
Publication Date: 10/04/1994
Age Range: 14-18 years
Edition Description: Reprint
White's poised yet scalding autobiographical novel is the story of a young man's coming of age in 1950s and 60s America.
"With intelligence, candor, humorand angerWhite explores the most insidious aspects of oppression.... An impressive novel."Washington Post book World
The 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 uprisingand populated by eloquent queens, butch poseurs, and a fearfully incompetent shrinkThe Beautiful Room is Empty conflates the acts of coming out and coming of age.
"With intelligence, candor, humorand angerWhite explores the most insidious aspects of oppression.... An impressive novel."Washington Post book World
The 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 uprisingand populated by eloquent queens, butch poseurs, and a fearfully incompetent shrinkThe Beautiful Room is Empty conflates the acts of coming out and coming of age.
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