TY  - BOOK
AU  - Louis,Édouard
AU  - Lucey,Michael
TI  - The end of Eddy
SN  - 9781787300002 (paperback) 
U1  - 843.92 LOU 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - London
PB  - Harvill Secker
KW  - Young men
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Adolescence
KW  - Working poor
KW  - Gender identity
KW  - Gay men
KW  - FICTION / Literary
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - FICTION / Gay
KW  - FICTION / Biographical
KW  - Picardy (France)
KW  - Autobiographical fiction
KW  - gsafd
N1  - First published in French as " En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule": France : Editions du Seuil, 2014
N2  - "  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. "--; 'Before I had a chance to rebel against the world of my childhood, that world rebelled against me. In truth, confronting my parents, my social class, its poverty, racism and brutality came second. From early on I provoked shame and even disgust from my family and others around me. The only option I had was to get away somehow. This book is an effort to understand all that.' Édouard Louis grew up in Hallencourt, a village in northern France where many live below the poverty line. His bestselling debut novel about life there, The End of Eddy, has sparked debate on social inequality, sexuality and violence. It is an extraordinary portrait of escaping from an unbearable childhood, inspired by the author’s own. Written with an openness and compassionate intelligence, ultimately, it asks, how can we create our own freedom?
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