The Beautiful Room Is Empty

The Beautiful Room Is Empty
	Cover of the Vintage Books edition
Author	Edmund White
Language	English
Genre	Autobiographical novel
Publisher	Alfred A. Knopf
Publication date	1988
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	227 pp
ISBN	0-394-56444-8
OCLC	17325874
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 19
LC Class	PS3573.H463 B43 1988

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The Beautiful Room Is Empty is a 1988 semi-autobiographical novel by Edmund White.^[1]

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.

References

↑ Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher (March 17, 1988). "BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Edmund White's Tale Of a Gay youth". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved August 22, 2024.

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[1] Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher (March 17, 1988). "BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Edmund White's Tale Of a Gay youth". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved August 22, 2024.

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