An edition of The Beautiful Room Is Empty (1988)

The beautiful room is empty

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Cover of: The beautiful room is empty by Edmund White, Edmund White
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An edition of The Beautiful Room Is Empty (1988)

The beautiful room is empty

1st Ballantine books ed.

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  • 10 Want to read

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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Ballantine Books
Language
English
Pages
199

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Subjects

Gay men, Fiction, Fiction, gay, LGBTQ novels, Lambda Literary Awards, Lambda Literary Award Winner, Fiction, lgbtq+, gay

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Cover of: The Beautiful Room Is Empty
The Beautiful Room Is Empty: A Novel
October 4, 1994, Vintage
Paperback in English
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Cover of: Beautiful Room Is Empty
Beautiful Room Is Empty
May 6, 1994, Pan Books Ltd
Hardcover - New Ed edition
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Cover of: The beautiful room is empty
The beautiful room is empty
1994, Vintage International
in English
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Cover of: Und das schöne Zimmer ist leer
Und das schöne Zimmer ist leer: Roman
1991, Kindler
Hardcover in German - 1. Auflage
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Cover of: The beautiful room is empty
The beautiful room is empty
1989, Ballantine Books
in English - 1st Ballantine books ed.
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Cover of: The beautiful room is empty
The beautiful room is empty
1988, Pan Books
in English
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Cover of: The Beautiful room is empty
The Beautiful room is empty
1988, Picador/Pan Books Ltd
in English
Cover of: The beautiful room is empty
The beautiful room is empty
1988, Knopf, Distributed by Random House
Hardcover in English - 1st ed.
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Edition Notes

Lambda Literary Award, 1988

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New York
Copyright Date
1988

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
[Fic]
Library of Congress
PS3573.H463 B43 1988

The Physical Object

Pagination
199 pages ;
Number of pages
199

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26338200M
Internet Archive
isbn_9780345351517
ISBN 10
0345351517
ISBN 13
9780345351517
OCLC/WorldCat
19506436

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