The Beautiful Room Is Empty

The Beautiful Room Is Empty

Infobox Book
name = The Beautiful Room Is Empty
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image_caption = Cover of the Vintage Books edition
author = Edmund White
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country = United States
language = English
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genre = Autobiographical Novel
publisher = Alfred A. Knopf
pub_date = 1988
english_pub_date =
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 227 pp
isbn = ISBN 0-394-56444-8
oclc = 17325874
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"The Beautiful Room Is Empty" is a 1988 semi-autobiographical novel by Edmund White. It is the second of a trilogy of novels, being preceded by "A Boy's Own Story" (1982) and followed by "The Farewell Symphony" (1997). It depicts the adolescence and early adulthood of its protagonist, and documents his experience of homosexuality in the 1950s and 1960s, ending with the Stonewall Riots of 1969.


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