{"product_id":"the-beautiful-room-is-empty-a-novel-lambda-literary-award","title":"The Beautiful Room Is Empty: A Novel (Lambda Literary Award)","description":"\u003cb\u003eWhite's poised yet scalding autobiographical novel is the story of a young man's coming of age in 1950s and 60s America. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"With intelligence, candor, humor--and anger--White explores the most insidious aspects of oppression.... An impressive novel.\"--\u003ci\u003eWashington Post book World\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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--\u003cb\u003eThe Beautiful Room is Empty\u003c\/b\u003e conflates the acts of coming out and coming of age.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0679755403\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780679755401\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: White, Edmund\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Oct 1994)","offer_id":46080652869829,"sku":"9780679755401","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780679755401.jpg?v=1776039270","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/the-beautiful-room-is-empty-a-novel-lambda-literary-award","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}