The Beautiful Room Is Empty: A Novel (Lambda Literary Award)

The Beautiful Room Is Empty: A Novel (Lambda Literary Award) (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
Country USA
Brand Vintage
Manufacturer Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780679755401
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 1994-10-04
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780679755401

Country	USA
Brand	Vintage
Manufacturer	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780679755401
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	1994-10-04
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780679755401

The Beautiful Room Is Empty: A Novel (Lambda Literary Award) (Vintage International)