The Beautiful Room Is Empty by White, Edmund

The Beautiful Room Is Empty (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780679755401)

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The Beautiful Room Is Empty by White, Edmund

The Beautiful Room Is Empty

$20.00
The Beautiful Room Is Empty by White, Edmund

The Beautiful Room Is Empty

$20.00
Format: Paperback
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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

Author: Edmund White
ISBN-10: 0679755403
ISBN-13: 9780679755401
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 10/04/1994
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.18w x 0.64d
Award: Lambda Literary Awards - Winner
By Edmund White
By Edmund White
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Edmund White was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1940. His fiction includes the autobiographical trilogy A Boy's Own Story, The Beautiful Room Is Empty, and The Farewell Symphony, as well as Caracole, Forgetting Elena, Nocturnes for the King of Naples, and Skinned Alive, a collection of short stories. He is also the author of a highly acclaimed biography of Jean Genet, a short study of Proust, a travel book about gay America--States of Desire--and Our Paris. He is an officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and teaches at Princeton University. He lives in New York City.

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