An edition of The Beautiful Room Is Empty
(1988)
The beautiful room is empty
1st Ballantine books ed.
by Edmund White
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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.
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Beautiful Room Is Empty
May 6, 1994, Pan Books Ltd
Hardcover
- New Ed edition
0330334832 9780330334839
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The Beautiful Room Is Empty: A Novel
October 4, 1994, Vintage
Paperback
in English
0679755403 9780679755401
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Und das schöne Zimmer ist leer: Roman
1991, Kindler
Hardcover
in German
- 1. Auflage
3463401096 9783463401096
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The beautiful room is empty
1989, Ballantine Books
in English
- 1st Ballantine books ed.
0345351517 9780345351517
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The beautiful room is empty
1988, Knopf, Distributed by Random House
Hardcover
in English
- 1st ed.
0394564448 9780394564449
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Lambda Literary Award, 1988
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