The Beautiful Room Is Empty: A Novel (Vintage International) - Softcover

White, Edmund

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679755403 ISBN 13: 9780679755401

Verlag: Vintage, 1994

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Book by White Edmund

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A young gay man experiences the pain of growing out of adolescence and struggles to come to terms with his homosexuality and his desire for power as society moves from the constrained 1950s to the expressive 1960s. Reprint.

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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.
"With intelligence, candor, humor--and anger--White explores the most insidious aspects of oppression.... An impressive novel."--"Washington Post book World

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• Verlag: Vintage
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0679755403
• ISBN 13: 9780679755401
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240