
The Beautiful Room Is Empty
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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George Backman
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By:
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Edmund White
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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Amazingly honest memoir/"novel". Best narrator.
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Great Book!
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He is the smart, kind, generous gay uncle that I like to pretend I had to guide, explain, accept and welcome me as I grew up. He’s a witness.
The narrator is remarkably good, no small feat with this kind of eclectic writing style. He perfectly serves the writing.
I am now moving into The Farewell Symphony, and I’m already in tears.
Edmund White is a Bearer of Gifts
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Well written
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I recommend this book to anyone who enjoys reading about the authentic gay male experience during the years prior to the explosion of the gay rights movement by someone who knows (the author, not me!) because he was there and actually went through it.
There are quite a few very graphic sexual scenes in this book. However, this was not the main thrust (so to speak!) of the book and, I thought, very much in context with the rest of the telling of the story.
I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys reading about this topic by an intelligent and talented writer.
ENJOYED IT!!
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Would you try another book from Edmund White and/or George Backman?
Yes for Edmund White ... No for George BackmanDo you think The Beautiful Room Is Empty needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?
Yes it needs a follow up, but I know what it will focus on. That will be AIDS unfortunately, for that was the gay communities plague in the US.Any additional comments?
I had to end up playing this on 1.25 speed just to get to the end. The narrator is so slow and over the top it's extremely annoying.Awful Narration
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I would recommend this to young men to read.
Socialist are pro Socialist until it hit them in the pocketbook
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great book
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not what i expected but great
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The Beautiful Room is Merely Pretty
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