# End of Eddy

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- Authors: [Édouard Louis](https://www.bookquiver.com/edouard-louis)
- Language: en_US
- Published: 2019-11-19
- Genres: Fiction: literary and general non-genre, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general

## Description

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-nine 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.

## Editions

### End of Eddy

- Publisher: picador
- ISBN: 978-12-5061-927-3
- Pages: 192
- Published: 2019-11-19
- Language: en_US