{"product_id":"the-end-of-eddy-paperback","title":"The End of Eddy - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eÉdouard Louis\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMichael Lucey\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn autobiographical novel about growing up gay in a working-class town in Picardy.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Every morning in the bathroom I would repeat the same phrase to myself over and over again . . . \u003ci\u003eToday I'm really gonna be a tough guy.\u003c\/i\u003e\" 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlready translated into twenty-nine languages, \u003ci\u003eThe End of Eddy\u003c\/i\u003e 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 his generation.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn Eddy Bellegueule in Hallencourt, France, in 1992, \u003cb\u003eÉdouard Louis\u003c\/b\u003e is a novelist and the editor of a scholarly work on the social scientist Pierre Bourdieu. He is the coauthor, with the philosopher Geoffroy de Lagasnerie, of \"Manifesto for an Intellectual and Political Counteroffensive,\" published in English by the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Lucey\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of French literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of\u003ci\u003eNever Say I: Sexuality and the First Person in Colette, Gide, and Proust\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Misfit of the Family: Balzac and the Social Forms of Sexuality\u003c\/i\u003e, and has translated \u003ci\u003eReturning to Reims \u003c\/i\u003eby Didier Eribon.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 19, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47416095473842,"sku":"9781250619273","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/2231725c09eb334f188df2e975024cf6.webp?v=1778396751","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/the-end-of-eddy-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}