The Beautiful Room Is Empty

The Beautiful Room Is Empty
Cover of the Vintage Books edition
AuthorEdmund White
LanguageEnglish
GenreAutobiographical novel
PublisherAlfred A. Knopf
Publication date
1988
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages227 pp
ISBN0-394-56444-8
OCLC17325874
813/.54 19
LC ClassPS3573.H463 B43 1988

The Beautiful Room Is Empty is a 1988 semi-autobiographical novel by Edmund White.[1]

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.

  1. ^ Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher (1988-03-17). "BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Edmund White's Tale Of a Gay youth". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-08-22.