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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 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."--
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Gay men, Working poor, Young men, Adolescence, Gender identity, Fiction, Fiction, general, Fiction, gay, Gay men, fictionPlaces
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The end of Eddy
2017, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English
- First American edition.
0374266654 9780374266653
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Translated from the French.
First published in French as En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule (Paris : Éditions du Seuil, 2014).
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