{"product_id":"9781250619273-the-end-of-eddy-a-novel","title":"Louis Edouard - The End Of Eddy A Novel - Paperback","description":"Binding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: 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 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.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: The End Of Eddy A Novel\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Louis Edouard\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Picador\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9781250619273\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 208 Pages\u003cbr\u003e\nLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 11\/19\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: Modern \u0026amp; Contemporary Fiction","brand":"Louis Edouard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49614775517489,"sku":"IN-G-9781250619273","price":15.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/6759\/9594\/files\/9781250619273.jpg?v=1724615755","url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9781250619273-the-end-of-eddy-a-novel","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}