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The beautiful room is empty / Edmund White.
LIBRA Special PS3573.H463 B43 1988
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Van Pelt Library PS3573.H463 B43 1988
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- White, Edmund, 1940-2025, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gay men--Fiction.
- Gay men.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Gay fiction.
- Fictional autobiographies.
- Bildungsromans.
- Autobiographical fiction.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 227 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Distribution:
- New York : Distributed by Random House.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1988.
- Summary:
- "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."--Cover.
- Notes:
- Lambda Literary Awards - Gay Fiction, Winner, 1989
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Other Format:
- Online version: White, Edmund, 1940- Beautiful room is empty.
- ISBN:
- 0394564448
- 9780394564449
- OCLC:
- 17325874
- Online:
- Publisher description
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