Description
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, humor--and anger--White 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 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.
Author: Edmund White
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 10/04/1994
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.18w x 0.64d
ISBN13: 9780679755401
ISBN10: 0679755403
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | LGBTQ+ | Gay
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Coming of Age
Author: Edmund White
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 10/04/1994
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.18w x 0.64d
ISBN13: 9780679755401
ISBN10: 0679755403
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | LGBTQ+ | Gay
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Coming of Age
About the Author
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.