The end of Eddy

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Call Number: Fiction / Louis, Edouard, Adult Book / Fiction / General / Louis, Edouard
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Westgate Branch

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction / Louis, Edouard	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction / Louis, Edouard	4-week checkout	Due 04-20-2024
Westgate Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Louis, Edouard	4-week checkout	On Shelf

"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.
"An autobiographical novel about growing up gay in a working-class town in Picardy"-- Provided by publisher.

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