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Edmund white moving from a midwestern college to the stonewall tavern on the night of the first gay uprisingand populated by eloquent queens, butch poseurs, and a fearfully incompetent shrink the beautiful. It depicts the adolescence and early adulthood of its protagonist, and documents his experience of homosexuality in the 1950s and 1960s, ending with the stonewall riots of 1969. The beautiful room is empty by edmund white goodreads. A cycle of thirteen tenderly evocative stories written while mu xin was living in exile, this collection is reminiscent of the structural beauty of hemingways in our time and the imaginistic power of kawabatas palmofthehand stories. March 1, 1988 this sequel to a boys own story is a satisfying successor to that acclaimed 1982 novel, taking the narrator through the 1950s and 60s as he matures as a gay man at the university of michigan and later in new york. Edmund white was born in cincinnati, ohio, in 1940.