The Beautiful Room Is Empty

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The Beautiful Room Is Empty

Author	: Edmund White
File Size	: 55,9 Mb
Publisher	: Vintage
Language	: English
Release Date	: 08 September 2010
ISBN	: 9780307764461
Pages	: 240 pages

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The Beautiful Room Is Empty by Edmund White Book PDF Summary

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

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