Binding: Paperback
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 - nine 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 douard 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.
Title: The End Of Eddy A Novel
Author(s): Louis Edouard
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250619273
Pages: 208 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 11/19/2019
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction