The Beautiful Room Is Empty

The Beautiful Room Is Empty

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

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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