The End of EddyThe End of Eddy
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Book, 2017
Current format, Book, 2017, First American edition, Available .Book, 2017
Current format, Book, 2017, First American edition, Available . Offered in 0 more formats"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."--Provided by publisher
"An autobiographical novel about growing up gay in a working-class town in Picardy"--Provided by publisher
"An autobiographical novel about growing up gay in a working-class town in Picardy"--Provided by publisher
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