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The beautiful room is empty / Edmund White.
LIBRA PS3573.H463 B43 1994
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PS3573.H463 B43 1994
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- White, Edmund, 1940-2025.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gay men--Fiction.
- Gay men.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Autobiographical fiction.
- Fictional autobiographies.
- Bildungsromans.
- Penn Provenance:
- Azzolina, David S. 1957- (donor) (inscription)
- Physical Description:
- 227 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Vintage International edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage International, 1994.
- 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:
- Reprint. Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1988.
- Lambda Literary Awards - Gay Fiction, Winner, 1989
- Local Notes:
- Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by David Azzolina.
- Penn Rare copy has inscription to David Azzolina.
- ISBN:
- 0679755403 :
- 9780679755401
- 0679755403
- OCLC:
- 31299386
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