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008			161221s2017 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a 2016041340
020			_a9781787300002 (paperback)
040			_aBLR _beng _cDLC _erda
082	0	0	_a843.92 LOU _223 _b011060
100	1		_aLouis, Édouard.
240	1	0	_aEn finir avec Eddy Bellegueule. _lEnglish
245	1	4	_aThe end of Eddy / _cÉdouard Louis ; translated by Michael Lucey.
250			_aFirst American edition.
264		1	_aLondon : _bHarvill Secker, _c2017.
300			_a192 pages ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_aFirst published in French as " En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule": France : Editions du Seuil, 2014.
520			_a" 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. "--
520			_a'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?
546			_aFirst published in French as En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule (Paris : Éditions du Seuil, 2014).
650		0	_aYoung men _vFiction.
650		0	_aAdolescence _vFiction.
650		0	_aWorking poor _vFiction.
650		0	_aGender identity _vFiction.
650		0	_aGay men _vFiction.
650		7	_aFICTION / Literary. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aFICTION / Gay. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aFICTION / Biographical. _2bisacsh
651		0	_aPicardy (France) _vFiction.
655		7	_aAutobiographical fiction. _2gsafd
700	1		_aLucey, Michael, _d1960- _etranslator.
942			_2ddc _cBK
999			_c11514 _d11514