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The Beautiful Room Is Empty

A Novel

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The Beautiful Room Is Empty

By: Edmund White
Narrated by: George Backman
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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.

©1988 Edmund White (P)2014 Audible Inc.
Coming of Age Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction

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