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, Ãdouard 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-- Ãdouard Louis ; Translated From The French By Michael Lucey. Translated From The French. First Published In French As En Finir Avec Eddy Bellegueule (paris : Ãditions Du Seuil, 2014).
Categories:
- Literature & Fiction
- Genre Fiction
- LGBTQ+
- Literary Fiction
- LGBTQ+
- Genre Fiction
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Author : Louis, Édouard
Language : English
Edition : First Edition
Published :2017-05-02
Number Of Pages : 208
Binding : Hardcover
ISBN-10 : 0374266654
ISBN-13 : 9780374266653
Item weight : 0.55 lb
Dimensions : 0.91 in x 5.12 in x 7.6 in
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