The end of Eddy
Record details
- ISBN: 9780374266653
- ISBN: 0374266654
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Physical Description:
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192 pages ; 21 cm - Edition: First American edition.
- Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017, ©2017.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Translated from the French. |
Language Note: | First published in French as En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule (Paris : Éditions du Seuil, 2014). |
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Subject: | Young men Fiction Adolescence Fiction Working poor Fiction Gender identity Fiction Gay men Fiction Picardy (France) Fiction |
Genre: | Autobiographical fiction. Autobiographical fiction. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Lehigh Carbon Library Cooperative. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Parkland Community Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Parkland Community Library | F LOU (Text) | 34422007012160 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Summary:
"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."--
"An autobiographical novel about growing up gay in a working-class town in Picardy"--
"An autobiographical novel about growing up gay in a working-class town in Picardy"--