The Beautiful Room Is Empty Format:Paperback After the horrifying explosion that

After the horrifying explosion that claimed one of their own

Winner of the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay

"A riveting examination of identity and how the people who raise us make us-and how we all must continually remake ourselves

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The Beautiful Room Is Empty Format:Paperback After the horrifying explosion thatWhen 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