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A review by waltroper1
The Beautiful Room Is Empty by Edmund White
3.0
REVIEW ⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Beautiful Room is Empty is Edmund White’s classic autobiographical novel which takes the narrator on a sexual odyssey from a Midwestern college of the 1950s to the first gay uprising at Stonewall. It is populated by a colorfully diverse cast of characters and paints a vivid and unflinching portrait of queer life of the time. ⠀
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The narrative flows with lushly descriptive and compelling prose that is rather plotless but instead focuses on the author’s introspection of dealing with himself and the gay world of the period. It is a classic coming of age story of not only one person but of an entire community. Younger generations should experience this story about those who came before that paved the way for the freedoms they can now enjoy and inspire them to take up the torch of battles still to be won. ⠀
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The narrative flows with lushly descriptive and compelling prose that is rather plotless but instead focuses on the author’s introspection of dealing with himself and the gay world of the period. It is a classic coming of age story of not only one person but of an entire community. Younger generations should experience this story about those who came before that paved the way for the freedoms they can now enjoy and inspire them to take up the torch of battles still to be won. ⠀