The End of Eddy

By Édouard Louis

Book Overview

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, 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250619270
• ISBN13: 9781250619273
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Picador USA
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.2"