The Beautiful Room Is Empty

A Novel (Lambda Literary Award)

Edmund White

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Vintage Books
15 March 2002

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Series: Vintage International

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

By: Edmund White
Imprint: Vintage Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 246g
ISBN: 9780679755401
ISBN 10: 0679755403
Series: Vintage International
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 15 March 2002
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.