The end of Eddy

Édouard Louis ; translated from the French by Michael Lucey
Book - 2017

"An autobiographical novel about growing up gay in a working-class town in Picardy. "Every morning in the bathroom I would repeat the same phrase to myself over and over again. Today I'm really gonna be a tough guy." Growing up in a poor village in northern France, all Eddy Bellegueule wanted was to be a man in the eyes of his family and neighbors. But from childhood, he was different -- "girlish," intellectually precocious, and attracted to other men. Already translated into twenty languages, The End of Eddy captures the violence and desperation of life in a French factory town. It is also a sensitive, universal portrait of boyhood and sexual awakening. Like Karl Ove Knausgaard or Edmund White, Édouard Louis writes from his own undisguised experience, but he writes with an openness and a compassionate intelligence that are all his own. The result -- a critical and popular triumph -- has made him the most celebrated French writer of his generation. "--

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Louis, Édouard (Author)
Other Authors: Lucey, Michael, 1960- (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
French
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.
Edition:First American edition.
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