The End of Eddy
Édouard Louis
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, douard 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.Binding Type: HardcoverAuthor: Édouard LouisPublisher: Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublished: 05/02/2017ISBN: 9780374266653Pages: 208Weight: 0.60lbsSize: 7.60h x 5.20w x 1.00dReview Citations: Booklist 03/01/2017 pg. 38Publishers Weekly 03/06/2017Library Journal 04/01/2017 pg. 83Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2017
Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Édouard Louis
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 05/02/2017
ISBN: 9780374266653
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.20w x 1.00d
Review Citations: Booklist 03/01/2017 pg. 38
Publishers Weekly 03/06/2017
Library Journal 04/01/2017 pg. 83
Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2017
Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Édouard Louis
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 05/02/2017
ISBN: 9780374266653
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.20w x 1.00d
Review Citations: Booklist 03/01/2017 pg. 38
Publishers Weekly 03/06/2017
Library Journal 04/01/2017 pg. 83
Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2017
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Book Title
The End of Eddy
ISBN
9780374266653
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, douard 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.Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Édouard Louis
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 05/02/2017
ISBN: 9780374266653
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.20w x 1.00d
Review Citations: Booklist 03/01/2017 pg. 38
Publishers Weekly 03/06/2017
Library Journal 04/01/2017 pg. 83
Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2017
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, douard 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.Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Édouard Louis
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 05/02/2017
ISBN: 9780374266653
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.20w x 1.00d
Review Citations: Booklist 03/01/2017 pg. 38
Publishers Weekly 03/06/2017
Library Journal 04/01/2017 pg. 83
Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2017
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