| Title | : | The End of Eddy: A Novel (Unabridged) |
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| Author | : | Édouard Louis & Michael Lucey - translator |
| Release | : | 2025-03-05 |
| Kind | : | audiobook |
| Genre | : | Nonfiction |
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| 1 | The End of Eddy: A Novel (Unabridged) | Édouard Louis & Michael Lucey - translator |
| 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. |
