The end of Eddy /
"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 Belle...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | First published in French as En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule (Paris : Éditions du Seuil, 2014). |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2017.
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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| Summary: | "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."-- "An autobiographical novel about growing up gay in a working-class town in Picardy"-- |
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| Item Description: | Translated from the French. |
| Physical Description: | 192 pages ; 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780374266653 0374266654 |