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100 1 $aLouis, ?douard.
245 14$aThe end of Eddy /$c?douard Louis ; translated by Michael Lucey.
250 $aFirst American edition.
260 $aNew York :$bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,$c2017.
300 $a192 p. ;$c20 cm.
520 $a" An autobiographical novel about growing up gay in a working-class town in Picardy. "Every morning in the bathroom I would repeat the same phrase to myself over and over again. Today I'm really gonna be a tough guy." Growing up ina poor village in northern France, all Eddy Bellegueule wanted was to be a man in the eyes of his family and neighbors. But from childhood, he was different -- "girlish," intellectually precocious, and attracted to other men. Already translated into twenty languages, The End of Eddy captures the violence and desperation of life in a French factory town. It is also a sensitive, universal portrait of boyhood and sexual awakening. Like Karl Ove Knausgaard or Edmund White, ?douard Louis writes from his own undisguised experience, but he writes with an openness and a compassionate intelligence that are all his own. The result -- a critical and popular triumph -- has made him the most celebrated French writer of hisgeneration. "--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"An autobiographical novel about growing up gay in a working-class town in Picardy"--$cProvided by publisher.
546 $aFirst published in French as En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule (Paris : ?ditions du Seuil, 2014).
650 0$aYoung men$vFiction.
650 0$aAdolescence$vFiction.
650 0$aWorking poor$vFiction.
650 0$aGender identity$vFiction.
650 0$aGay men$vFiction.
651 0$aPicardy (France)$vFiction.
700 1 $aLucey, Michael,$d1960-$etranslator.