Picador
The End of Eddy: A Novel
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9781250619273
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9781250619273
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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: Ã?douard Louis |
Publisher: Picador |
Publication Date: November 19, 2019 |
Number of Pages: 208 pages |
Language: English |
Binding: Paperback |
ISBN-10: 1250619270 |
ISBN-13: 9781250619273 |
The End of Eddy: A Novel
$18.00
$16.81
Sale 7%
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: Ã?douard Louis |
Publisher: Picador |
Publication Date: November 19, 2019 |
Number of Pages: 208 pages |
Language: English |
Binding: Paperback |
ISBN-10: 1250619270 |
ISBN-13: 9781250619273 |