The Beautiful Room Is Empty
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When the narrator of Whites 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 From the Trade Paperback edition.
