Author: Edmund White Year: 1988 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: LGBT, Gay, Fiction, Gay & Lesbian
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ISBNs: 9780679755401 0679755403 |
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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.
This book is part of the "The Edmund Trilogy" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "A Boy's Own Story" First published in 1982 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
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