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| 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 -- The Beautiful Room is Empty conflates the acts of coming out and coming of age. | ||||||||||||||||
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| Edmund White's critically acclaimed fiction has earned him a number of honors and awards during his career. He has twice received the Hopwood Awards (1961 and 1962), Ingram Merrill grants (1973 and 1978), 'was a Guggenheim fellow in 1983, and in that same year received the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters award for fiction. His major works include five novels, Forgetting Elena, Nocturnes for the King of Naples, A Boy's Own Story, Caracole, and The Beautiful Room is Empty as well as a short story collection, The Darker Proof, a play, The Blue Boy in Black, and the nonfiction Argument for a Myth. He is a frequent contributor of articles and reviews to periodicals, as well. After being based in Paris for a number of years, Mr. White has returned to join the faculty at Brown University, where he currently teaches. | ||||||||||||||||
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