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      The Beautiful Room Is Empty

      by Edmund White
      Published
      Feb 1989
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      208
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      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.

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      First Edition Feb 1989 Ballantine ISBN 0345351517
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      Oct 1994 Vintage ISBN 0679755403
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      Mar 1988 Knopf ISBN 0394564448
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      Sep 2010 Knopf ISBN 030776446X
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      Sep 2010 Vintage ISBN B00413QAG0
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