The end of Eddy
By: Édouard Louis ; translated from the French by Michael Lucey
Contributors: Lucey, Michael, 1960- translator
Edition: First American edition.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780374266653
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Gay men; Working poor; Young men; Adolescence; Gender identity; Fiction
Work titles: En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule
Description: "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."--

"An autobiographical novel about growing up gay in a working-class town in Picardy"--
Notes: Translated from the French.

First published in French as En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule (Paris : Éditions du Seuil, 2014).