num_pages: 240
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Beautiful Room Is Empty
titlecomplete: The Beautiful Room Is Empty (The Edmund Trilogy, #2)
genres: American, LGBT, Gay, Gay Fiction, Novels, 20th Century, Literature, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Queer
ratings_count: 3173
places: New York City, New York, Detroit, Michigan, New York (State)
series: The Edmund Trilogy
awards: awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Gay Men's Fiction
publisher: Vintage