The End of Eddy
A Novel
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.
Format: Book
Edition: First American edition.
Description: 192 pages ; 20 cm
"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, ©⁹douard 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. "-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects:
Young men -- Fiction.
Adolescence -- Fiction.
Working poor -- Fiction.
Gender identity -- Fiction.
Gay men -- Fiction.
Picardy (France) -- Fiction.
Young men -- Fiction.
Adolescence -- Fiction.
Working poor -- Fiction.
Gender identity -- Fiction.
Gay men -- Fiction.
Picardy (France) -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780374266653 (hardback)
First published in French as En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule (Paris : ©⁹ditions du Seuil, 2014).