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

About this book

White's poised yet scalding autobiographical novel is the story of a young man's coming of age in 1950s and 60s America."With intelligence, candor, humor--and anger--White explores the most insidious aspects of oppression.... An impressive novel."--Washington Post book World The 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.

Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN-13

9780679755401

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

October 4, 1994

Pages

240

Weight

9 oz

Subject

Fiction