{"product_id":"the-beautiful-room-is-empty-a-novel-lambda-literary-award-9780679755401","title":"The Beautiful Room Is Empty: A Novel (Lambda Literary Award)","description":"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--\u003cb\u003eThe Beautiful Room is Empty\u003c\/b\u003e conflates the acts of coming out and coming of age. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"With intelligence, candor, humor--and anger--White explores the most insidious aspects of oppression.... An impressive novel.\"--\u003ci\u003eWashington Post book World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdmund White \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1940. His fiction includes the autobiographical trilogy \u003ci\u003eA Boy\u003ci\u003e's\u003c\/i\u003e Own Story\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Beautiful Room Is Empty\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Farewell Symphony\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as\u003ci\u003e Caracole\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eForgetting Elena\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Nocturnes for the King of Naples\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eSkinned Alive\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of short stories. He is also the author of a highly acclaimed biography of Jean Genet, a short study of Proust, a travel book about gay America--\u003ci\u003eStates of Desire\u003c\/i\u003e--and \u003ci\u003eOur Paris\u003c\/i\u003e. He is an officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and teaches at Princeton University. He lives in New York City.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50720785334546,"sku":"9780679755401","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c4a13b1b-14eb-4365-8312-23409b7de5ca.jpg?v=1734676233","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-beautiful-room-is-empty-a-novel-lambda-literary-award-9780679755401","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}