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The End of Eddy

The End of Eddy

Louis, Édouard
Lucey, Michael

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General FictionGeneral GLBTQIA FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 1250449804
ISBN13: 9781250449801
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: May 5 2026
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.40
Language: English

The celebrated debut novel from Édouard Louis: the equal parts frank, provocative and compelling (Financial Times) coming-of-age story 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.

Translated into more than 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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