{"product_id":"the-beautiful-room-is-empty-isbn-9780679755401","title":"The Beautiful Room Is Empty","description":"\u003cb\u003eWhite's poised yet scalding autobiographical novel is the story of a young man's coming of age in 1950s and 60s America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\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.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301859709157,"sku":"NP9780679755401","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679755401.jpg?v=1767738294","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-beautiful-room-is-empty-isbn-9780679755401","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}