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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.
Author: Édouard Louis
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 11/19/2019
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.4 lbs
Size: 8.2″ H x 5.4″ L x 0.6″ W
ISBN: 9781250619273
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