The Beautiful Room Is Empty Format:Paperback Winner of the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award

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

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The Beautiful Room Is Empty Format:Paperback Winner of the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel AwardWhen 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