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Overview"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" Full Product DetailsAuthor: Edmund WhitePublisher: Random House USA Inc Imprint: Vintage Books Dimensions: Width: 13.20cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 20.30cm Weight: 0.246kg ISBN: 9780679755401ISBN 10: 0679755403 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 04 October 1994 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationEdmund 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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