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Ted is Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn's older brother, best friend, and the "ringmaster of her days." On a September morning when she is six, she wakes up and Ted is gone. Her parents explain that he went to the hospital for a while. "A while" turns out to be eight years in a plastic bubble, where he dies of a rare autoimmune disease at age seventeen.
The Empty Room is DeVita-Raeburn's unflinching, often haunting recollection of life with Ted, woven into a larger exploration of the enormous -- and often unacknowledged -- impact of a sister's or brother's death on remaining siblings.
With an inspired blend of life experience, journalistic acumen, and research training, DeVita-Raeburn draws on interviews of more than two hundred survivors to render a powerful portrait of the range of conditions and emotions, from withdrawal to guilt to rage, that attend such loss. Finding little in professional literature, she realizes that those who suffer are the experts. And in the end, it is DeVita-Raeburn and her experts who present a larger, more complex understanding of the sibling bond, the lifelong impact of the severing of that bond, and the tools needed to heal and move forward.
The Empty Room is a fascinating literary hybrid in which Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn seamlessly fuses deeply affecting remembrance with a pragmatic, lucidly written exploration of the healing journey.
Customer Reviews:
Insightful .......2007-09-20
Definitely a great read for anyone that has lost a brother or sister. I found the book to be very insightful and brought up some issues that I realized that I should work on. I will warn surviving siblings that have lost a brother or sister who was an adult, as an adult that this literature is a bit biased and aimed towards those who lost their siblings as a child since that was the author's experience. I am still searching for a book that I can relate to but this was a definite stepping stone in researching sibling loss. Especially interesting to know that there are certain families who are in so much pain and denial that they cut the person they lost out of their lives- don't talk about it, remove pictures. I am extremely lucky that my family is not like this and we are aiming to keep my sister's legacy and life alive everyday so that her children will never forget her.
great resource.......2007-01-12
I couldn't put this book down. Although my brother died several years ago, issues about his death keep resurfacing & this helped me deal with some of that. At the very least it reassured me that a lot of what my family & I went through was typical of many families who've suffered this kind of loss. I'm glad I found it & would recommend it to anyone who's lost a sibling. It also lists several other helpful resources for anyone looking for this kind of guidance. I found it so helpful I plan to buy it for all my siblings.
I also found the book to be well written & very thorough. The author is an experienced writer, she's not just writing from her own experience, she's skilled.
Mom of siblings .......2007-01-09
My daughters are the siblings who lost a brother. This book helped me to understand the variety of ways that losing a brother could impact their world. The best part of the book is that it empowered me to know that the "experts" (like school counselors) do not have much real data to support their advice. The best experts seem to be those who have been through it. Most of the stories of pain in this book seem to be from people whose parents did not talk about the death openly. I guess I will now learn what new diffiuclties arise when the parents are very open and talk about it. My kids will get to write their own book in 20 years.
So Helpful.......2006-10-04
It hasn't even been a month since I lost my only sibling, my older brother, to suicide. I've needed all the help I can get and I'm so thankful I found this amazing book. Whether you recently lost a sibling or its been a decade, I think you will find this book helpful.
Review Empty Room.......2006-07-06
This book fills in a lot of empty space in the reporting of sibling loss. It also provides a clear distinction between the findings of death and dying, and of sibling loss.
The grieving processes are not the same,and one should not be used for the other.
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- Construction of gay identity
- Eloquent Coming-Out Experience
- The Beautiful Room
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Beautiful Room Is Empty
Edmund White
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ASIN: 0394564448
Release Date: 1988-03-12 |
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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.
"With intelligence, candor, humor--and anger--White explores the most insidious aspects of oppression.... An impressive novel."--Washington Post book World
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Construction of gay identity.......2007-09-21
Edmund White writes beautifully and this narrative is flowing, interesting, and compelling. White writes as if he is developing a 1980 memoire about the 1960s. But at the core of this novel is a dilemma that is never fully answered in the novel and is probably never really answered in the lives of gay men and women. Other reviews and reviewers do an excellent job of telling the narrative details of this novel, but underneath this narrative is a question regarding identify and identity development.
The basic question is whether gay men are born gay and thus they come out through a process of ever more intense and meaningful gay experiences and friendships and relationships with a broad cast of characters or whether gay men learn to be gay and take on a gay identity through emersion into various relationships with significant persons who teach the youth how to be gay. The brilliance of The Beautiful Room is Empty is that White is able to weave both of these concepts together into a whole cloth of experience, never fully answering whether the power of the instinctual sexual identity is paramount and is revealed in a series of vignetts and character studies with friends and lovers or whether the passion and identity are more diffuse and coagulate around core external experiences where gay identity is learned and reinforced. Both are deterministic models, whether it be a biological determinism or a social structural determinism. Internal reality is always checked against external reality in White's narrative. The drive to sexual expression is the impetus toward self discovery in much of the book, rather than a less sophisticated approach wereby sexual expression is taken as just one component of a series of relationships.
Overall the book is a very good read, shocking in some parts as public bathroom sex is described, but always about an unfolding reality that is heavily influenced by events and relationships.
Eloquent Coming-Out Experience.......2005-10-01
White is clearly one of the finest prosaists in the last half of the 20th C. America. His mellifluous writing and lucid exposition have earned him the wide respect that he deserves.
"The Beautiful Room is Empty" is a sequel to his earlier "A Boy's Own Story," the evolving process of coming-out gay in the Sixties. The first novel scouts the adolescent years; this novel covers early adulthood. Much has changed in the way that people come-out today, versus the time when being gay was stigmatized by everybody. Curing homosexuality was seen as viable by both the queer himself and by the anti-queer establishment. Fortunately, while coming-out may still be a demanding process, it is far less traumatic than a few score ago, because of these earlier pioneers.
In an almost plotless chronicle of coming-out, the focus is on the author's first-person's introspection of dealing with himself and the gay world as it was then. The ways in which people connected were far more convoluted, clandestine, and often illegal. It wasn't much of a life, until the Stonewall riots liberated gays from their false imprisonment. It not only opened new avenues by which to meet and socialize, but it also rejected the premise that gays should be neither heard nor seen. The toll these older restrictions had on men and women must have been truly appalling, causing much externalized homophobia to turn inward.
To see how far the GLBT community has come in the past 40 years is itself a witness to these earlier pioneers. We owe it to them to hear their story, especially when it's this well-told.
The Beautiful Room.......2002-08-04
Edmund White's 'Beautiful Room' is a moving, wonderful story, crafted around the late teens to late twenties of the narrator, known only as 'Bunny' to his friend Lou, one of the many lively, memorable characters encountered along the way, as well as Tex, a flaboyant bookstore owner, who gives 'Bunny' his earliest education in 'gay slang.'
'Bunny', at the beginning of the novel, is a prep-school student coming to terms with his homosexuality, by engaging in anonymous sexual encounter after encounter in the boy's bathrooms, where his lovers are seen only from waistline to knees. He dresses and plays the part of the dutiful prep school student by day, but once class is out, he drifts toward the bohemians, gracing the coffee shops of their 1950's and 60's lives, watching them paint, sharing their surrealist literature and poetry, and secretly lusting after the males. A child of divorced parents, his father determined to make a man out of him, his mother convinced that all he needs is a cure, the narrator carries us along on his ride, meeting many notable characters along the way, that shape and influence his gradual acceptance that he is gay.
Following his school years, when he enters the work force and the real world, the words of a school-friend come back to haunt him, that 'some day he will have too much freedom,' freedom to choose where he goes, what he does, and who he is. He drifts along from job to job, from lover to lover, Lou, Fred, and the frequent pick-ups from Christoper Street, until he meets Sean, a closeted young man who leads 'Bunny' to question his own identity as they both enter group therapy to try and overcome their 'illness' and go straight, with very different results.
Culminating at the famous Stonewall site, Edmund White provides readers with a grand tour-de-force of growing up gay in the 50's and 60's in Chicago and New York.
Sometimes poignant, sometimes emotional, sometimes laugh-out-loud funny, 'Beautiful Room' is a beautiful book, with a beautiful story to tell. The narrator, presumably White himself, as the book is supposed to be autobiographical, slips from identity to identity as he tries to find his own. Young and unsure of himself, he tries to be what everyone else wants him to be until he finds himself.
Although this story centers on a gay man, the book speaks volumes to anyone struggling to find their own identity, and the choices and mistakes we all make along the way.
A Boy's Own Story, continued.......2002-06-03
A continuation of A Boy's Own Story, this book is no less well written and no less brilliant. It is no wonder that White is considered--by the worthy, literate critics, at least--the finest gay writer in America. I would modify that to say he is one of the finest writers (gay or otherwise) in the world today. This book cronicles the life of ABOS from shortly after that book leaves off through the Stonewall riots in New York in June of 1969. The narrator's growth is evident from the end of the last novel through the end of this one. This is one of the most important works by one of our most important writers; White is the nearest writer to Proust to write since, though minus the cork-lined apartment and with quite a few more social graces.
the best title ever.......2002-04-08
The Beautiful Room is Empty is extemely poetic, and it is deeply moving. i love this book, and cannot express how well i related to the character. granted, i would suggest that you read the first autobiographical book A Boy's Own Story first, because it will enable you to feel for the characters better.
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Voices in an empty room
Philip Loraine
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The Mystery of the Empty Room.
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- "Whose job is it to protect the inncent?"
- How Do You Define Love?
- Good plot but college sophomore writing
- Brilliant debut
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An Empty Room
Talitha Stevenson
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ASIN: 0156032813 |
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Nineteen-year-old Emily spends the endless summer before college going out all night, sleeping all day, and reveling in the aura of her beautiful boyfriend, Tom, and his fashionable friends. But the luster soon begins to fade, and she is left feeling lonely and directionless. Unwilling to accept the only futures she knows--the misery and jealousy of Tom's divorced parents or the hushed tensions that envelop her parents' marriage--Emily embarks on a quest for genuine intimacy and is drawn to her boyfriend's married older cousin, Simon. Their affair forces her to confront her own sense of right and wrong and to make the same decisions about love, loyalty, and betrayal that are at the heart of the unraveling relationships of the adults around her.
An Empty Room was short-listed for the Whitbread First Novel Award in 2003. Beautifully written, it takes readers through a moral maze of subtle splendor.
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"Whose job is it to protect the inncent?".......2005-09-03
Emily is nineteen, attracted to Tom, son of her parent's acquaintances, Andrea and Tony Raine. While the Raine's file for divorce, Tom's married cousin, Simon, and his wife, Rachel, live with Andrea temporarily to help her prepare for the single life, her residence across the street from Emily's house. On the cusp of womanhood, Emily's attraction to Tom is mostly external, based on his striking handsomeness, their endless evenings of dancing, drinking and drugs a shadow romance. Emily isn't ready for commitment or love, content to drift along in a shallow, if physically satisfying relationship. Whenever Tom manifests any complications, Emily chooses ignorance, unwilling to invest emotionally, carefully aloof. This is the summer before college, the ending of one part of her life, not quite the beginning of another: "I helped myself to all the power of being loved, withy none of the cost to myself."
Emily's parents coexist in a constant state of tension; her father keeps his clothing in the bedroom closet, but sleeps in the guest room, husband and wife's conversations threaded with sarcasm. In contrast, Tom's mother is brittle and angry, her bitterness infecting everyone around her. Suddenly, Emily finds herself longing for intimacy, tired of her parent's stoicism and put off by Andrea's tragic self-indulgence. Emily's social life has always revolved around a clique of club kids, "a them and us fiction... all it was in reality was the possession of Class A and B drugs". When Emily begins a clandestine affair with Simon, her attention is focused on him and she still believes the world will bend to her wishes. This young woman's moral quandary is resolved, if not to her liking, shaped more by reality than fantasy, an indelible lesson: "Blame... is there waiting in your own mind, when you are ready to read it".
But Emily's revival from the dark well of her own ego is tainted by the cost to others, an egocentric girl who has avoided reality, seeking comfort in isolation and passivity. The romance awakens this Sleeping Beauty from a long summer of self, but the affair is rendered almost incidental to her newly realized emotional maturity. Stevenson has a particular knack for the young, hip English dialog, in this case, Emily's ongoing inner commentary as she is swept into her love affair with a married man that erases all her boundaries. This deceptively simple story excises the frail pretensions of youth, finally betrayed by the human flaws that determine our commitments and the consequences of our actions. Emily's coming-of-age is fraught with pain, but significant and impressive, her passport into a more effective adulthood. Stevenson should not be underestimated, her prose both incisive and insightful, diving below the surface of facile relationships to expose fears, denials and shattered dreams. Luan Gaines/2005.
How Do You Define Love?.......2005-08-30
How do you define love? This question and other heady topics form the foundation for Stevenson's debut novel. Stevenson's characters are well rendered, with both their internal emotional lives and their relationships to each other masterly crafted. Stevenson doesn't show pity for her characters. She is honest with their emotions; she tells the truth.
On the surface, AN EMPTY ROOM is about a 19-year-old narrator and how she leaves a sinking relationship with her dead-end boyfriend to enter an affair with her ex-boyfriend's married cousin. Every parent in the novel is either divorced or in a stale marriage; they are all plagued with previous infidelity. This fact weighs heavy with the narrator as she struggles with the hypocrisy of her own affair and the family histories all around her. Stevenson nicely weaves these emotional issues, which form the foundation of the book, with the exterior plot.
The previous reader, who thought Stevenson overused similes and metaphors, is a bit harsh. Stevenson's writing technique is nothing short of excellent. Her style is not sparse; it is more elaborate, like Eggers or Zadie Smith. There are even some passages where Stevenson quotes Voltaire, and these lines are some of the finest in the book. Talitha Stevenson has a promising future ahead of her and I look forward to reading more of her work.
Good plot but college sophomore writing.......2005-02-08
The idea of this book was very good - she should have taken it and run with it. Instead, it comes off like a college kid's composition paper, trying to sound grown-up with an eye towards having the absolute most similes and metaphors per page ever. If you get past the pretentiousness and find this debut author a new editor, she should be very good.
Brilliant debut.......2003-07-30
Emily is stuck in a sweltering london before university and she falls in love. She is a romantic and realist and lives in a world of people who lie and manipulate and yet somehow get on with their lives together. It is a book about survival and written in an everyday language which is at times rivals anything that modern poetry can offer.
A wonderful debut novel.
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In This Empty Room: A Collection of Short Stories and Poems
Erick J. Zamora
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In This Empty Room: A Collection of Short Stories and Poems is a startling revelation. Erick J. Zamora blends sarcasm, and dark humor into a shocking and provocative look of a mix of characters whose psychologically complex lives teeter on the edge of hope and destruction. The poems and short stories are perplexing, beautifully-written, striking at the very heart of the human condition.
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Voices in an Empty Room
Francis Henry King
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- Finally, a sequel that's better than the original!
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The Legacy of Vashna (Lone Wolf, Book 16)
Joe Dever
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Finally, a sequel that's better than the original!.......1997-04-29
This book goes somewhat like The Chasm of Doom (Lone Wolf #4), but is MUCH better! Here, you disguise yourself as an Acolyte of Vashna, destroy too many true Acolytes of Vashna to count, and foil yet another plot to ressurect Darklord Vashna! In 3 words, BUY THIS BOOK
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- Excellent old-time Sci-Fi
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Costigan's Needle
Manufacturer: Bantam Books
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ASIN: 0553012789 |
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Excellent old-time Sci-Fi.......2006-04-28
Great premise and excellent building of characters and the science to support the story. Thoroughly enjoyable without the gratuitous "monsters" and gore.
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Costigan's Needle
Jerry SOHL
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Costigan's Needle
Jerry Sohl
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- An adventure across time and space
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Costigan's needle
Jerry Sohl
Manufacturer: Rinehart
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ASIN: B0007DXEYY |
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An adventure across time and space.......2002-02-12
The needle of the story is actuall a gateway to another...uh..world. Actually, nobody knows where it leads, only that it's other side doesn't exist in our own world, and that only living matter can traverse it. When the completed needle is saboutaged by right-wing fundamentalists, the doorway expands to swallow up an entire city block. A small town of (now naked, and not just of clothing) normal people, men, women and children find themselves alone and someplace other than Maple Street, USA. Not knowing if they are on Earth of a different time, or have been catapulted to another universe entirely, they band together to create a semblance of civilization with the intent of building a crude version of the needle, one that can send them home.
This was one of my favorite novels, but I can't hide its faults. A large part of the book isn't concerned with the sci-fi aspect of the plot as it is with the efforts of the displaced to re-learn metallurgy, chemistry and stellar navigation. The eligious fundamentalists come off as a bunch of rubes, but the ending is uplifting for all and redeems the story.
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COSTIGANS NEEDLE
SOHL JERRY
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Costigans Needle
Jerry Sohl
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Costigan's Needle
Jerry Sohl
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Profiling hundreds of wines from every region, major vineyard, and appellation of France, French Wines is equally useful to the cultured connoisseur as well as the beginner who doesn't know Pouilly Fume from Pouilly Fuisse. Combining beautiful color photographs with an informative text by eminent wine export and author Robert Joseph, this guide offers an abundance of detailed information on each wine. Special features include a glossary of wine terminology; an extensive introductory section with information on viticulture, buying, tasting, storing, serving, and matching foods with wines. A tour itinerary and food specialty for each wine-producing region makes this a perfect accessory on a trip to France or to preparing a meal that makes you feel like you're there.
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French Wines.......2005-09-25
This is an excellent overall view of French wines, the varieties, and locations of the vineyards. It is good for the beginner and experienced wine lover.
Reference, not reading.......2004-06-05
Like so many other fabulous DK books, this is for reference, not for reading for hours at a time. Lovely photos, great suggested routes for driving or biking and recommendations of vinyards to visit. Take it with you when you travel, keep it with you when you decide you can't possibly leave France and settle down there for a few years...
Let's see: tickets, passport, French Wine by Robert Joseph.........2003-08-20
What a great book! This publisher is well known for high quality books on heavy stock with full-color illustrations on every page, and detailed maps galore - makes you want to book a French wine vacation. If you need room in your suitcase, take something else out like medication or clothing, but leave this book in.
Excellent book, excellent publisher!.......2003-03-11
DK makes wonderful books -- always colorful, well written and made of heavy stock. This French Wine guide is no exception. Covering all of the wine growing regions of France, including the non-classified areas, this guide provides for some wonderful reading. It covers several of the better vinyards for each area, including a history of the vinyard. The photographs are of very good quality and quite beautiful. The descriptions of the vinyards are fun to read and give a good general history. This guide would make an excellent companion for a travel tour of France.
One of the great attributes of DK books is that they can be read in short bursts -- the information is concise but thorough, and allows the reader to take in a good amount of information in only a two or three paragraph span. This makes it an excellent book to keep in the car, for those times spent in waiting rooms.
Hone Your Knowledge of French Wine.......2003-01-12
While attempting to purchase a number of interesting and fine wines for my brother for Christmas and finding my knowledge of the subject lacking in almost every way, I purchased this book as it seemed to possess everything I was looking for in a fine presentation with plenty of much needed photographs. For me, visting a wine shop is a dangerous endeavor; I am dually susceptible to selecting and suspicious of the wine merchant's recommendations. After researching some fantastically priced wines on the FinestWine.com website, I took my list to my local store and was sorely disappointed. Since none of the wines I had researched were available, I needed to start at square one and did not have a square one to jump on. This book provided one. It tutored me regarding label so that I could get more grape and taste for my buck. By depicting in full color the actual labels produced by the various chateaus along with a succinct description of the producer's quality, yield, climate, soil, grape varieties, styles, longevities, etc, I was able to make some great selections.
The book is divided into the different varieties of wine based on region: Alsace & Lorraine, Bordeaux, Burgundy, etc and is further exemplified by the various appellations and recommendations regarding producers and good vintages. Each of the ten regions begins with pages about the region with a drivng tour and ends with a discussion of the region's food partnerships and tasting tips. I would imagine that this would serve well on one of the popular wine tours of France.
The book begins with some rudimentary information regarding the process of winemaking, label reading, red and white wine differences, starting a cellar, wine and food . . . it is extremely comprehensive and yet fits well into the 240+ page format --- every page filled with glossy photographs and interesting sidebars.
If you enjoy the popular DK city/region/country travel books, you will equally enjoy this. I recommend this highly for anyone who wants to indulge in a small book with a huge amount of information.
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