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The end of Eddy / Édouard Louis ; translated from the French by Michael Lucey.

by Louis, Édouard.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.

Young men -- Fiction.

Adolescence -- Fiction.

Working class -- Fiction.

Gender identity -- Fiction.

Gay men -- Fiction.

Picardy (France) -- Fiction.

9780374266653 (hc.)

En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule. English.

1st American ed.

192 p. ; 21 cm.

Translated from the French.

First published in French as En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule (Paris : Éditions du Seuil, 2014).

"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."--From publisher.

Autobiographical fiction.

Literary fiction.

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