The Beautiful Room Is Empty, Paperback/Edmund White

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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