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The End of Eddy: A Novel

The End of Eddy: A Novel

Edouard Louis

Paperback

Literary Fiction

ISBN10: 1250181992
ISBN13: 9781250181992
Publisher: Picador
Published: May 1 2018
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.00
Height: 0.00 Width: 4.50 Depth: 7.10
Language: English

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-nine 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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