by Edmund White · Dom Quixote · tapa dura · ISBN 9789722010665
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«Um belo quarto vazio» is the autobiographical novel by Edmund White, published by Dom Quixote in hardback (246 pages, in Portuguese).
The protagonist, a young academic with homosexual tastes, grows up in the conservative America of the 1950s, a country with no place for him. The novel follows his sexual and intellectual odyssey from the Midwest to the Stonewall Inn, the night of the revolt that marked the beginning of the LGBT liberation movement, and fuses coming out of the closet with the passage to maturity.
Second instalment of the saga The Edmund Trilogy; original in English, The Beautiful Room is Empty, published in 1988; Portuguese translation by J. Freitas e Silva.
For readers of literary fiction and LGBT fiction interested in the period leading up to Stonewall.
Edmund Valentine White III was an American novelist, memoirist, playwright, biographer and essayist. A pioneering figure in LGBTQ and especially gay literature after the Stonewall riots, he wrote with rare candor about gay identity, relationships, and sex. His work emerged as part of an increasingly solidified and visible LGBTQ community, helping to reshape public narratives at a time when coming out was still a dangerous, even radical act. His writing, noted for intimate depth and literary elegance, includes the semi-autobiographical trilogy A Boy's Own Story (1982), The Beautiful Room Is Empty (1988), and The Farewell Symphony (1997). He also co-authored The Joy of Gay Sex (1977), promoting sex-positive discourse.
