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The Beautiful Room Is Empty

3.9/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 240

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Vintage

Release: October 04, 1994

ISBN: 0679755403

ISBN 13: 9780679755401

The Beautiful Room Is Empty

3.9/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 240

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Vintage

Release: October 04, 1994

ISBN: 0679755403

ISBN 13: 9780679755401

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