| Edition |
First American edition. |
| Description |
192 pages ; 21 cm |
| Note |
Translated from the French. |
| 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."-- Provided by publisher. |
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"An autobiographical novel about growing up gay in a working-class town in Picardy"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Language |
First published in French as En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule (Paris : Éditions du Seuil, 2014). |
| Subject |
Young men -- Fiction.
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Adolescence -- Fiction.
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Working poor -- Fiction.
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Gender identity -- Fiction.
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Gay men -- Fiction.
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Picardy (France) -- Fiction.
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FICTION -- Literary.
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FICTION -- Gay.
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FICTION -- Biographical.
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Adolescence. (OCoLC)fst00796984
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Gay men. (OCoLC)fst00939117
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Gender identity. (OCoLC)fst00939593
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Working poor. (OCoLC)fst01180666
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Young men. (OCoLC)fst01183263
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France -- Picardy.
(OCoLC)fst01209071
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Autobiographical fiction.
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Autobiographical fiction.
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Autobiographical fiction.
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| Added Author |
Lucey, Michael, 1960- translator.
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| Added Title |
En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule. English
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| ISBN |
9780374266653 hardcover |
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0374266654 hardcover |
| Music No. |
On order record |
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