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Country United States Publication date 1988 ISBN 0-394-56444-8 Followed by The Farewell Symphony Genres Novel, Autobiography | 3.9/5 Goodreads Language English Pages 227 pp Originally published 1988 Preceded by A Boy's Own Story Publisher Alfred A. Knopf | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback) Similar Edmund White books, Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction winners, Novels | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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