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.

End Of Eddy

Edouard-Louis

Vintage

Histoire de la violence (French Edition)

French and European Publications Inc

A Woman's Battles and Transformations

The End of Eddy: A Novel

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.

End of Eddy, The

Literature & Fiction

Literary

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" L'histoire de ton corps accuse l'histoire politique. " Edouard Louis a publie deux romans, En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule et Histoire de la violence, qui ont ete traduits dans une trentaine de langues. Biographie de l'auteur Edouard Louis a publie deux livres, En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule et Histoire de la violence, qui ont ete traduits dans une trentaine de langues et font l'objet d'adaptations theatrales et cinematographiques. Il a cree la collection " Des mots " aux Presses Universitaires de France et donne regulierement des cours et des conferences dans des universites americaines et dans de nombreux lieux culturels a travers le monde.

Qui a tue mon pere (French Edition)

Who Killed My Father is the story of a tough guy – the story of the little boy I never was. The story of my father.\n‘What a beautiful book’ MAX PORTER\nIn Who Killed My Father , Édouard Louis explores key moments in his father’s life, and the tenderness and disconnects in their relationship.\nTold with the fire of a writer determined on social justice, and with the compassion of a loving son, the book urgently and brilliantly engages with issues surrounding masculinity, class, homophobia, shame and social poverty.\nIt unflinchingly takes aim at systems that disadvantage those they seek to exclude – those who have their expectations, hopes and passions crushed by a society which gives them little thought.\n‘ 
Édouard Louis is the vanguard of France’s new generation of political writers’ 
Evening Standard .

Who Killed My Father

Biographies & Memoirs

History of Violence

HARVILL/SECKER

Professionals & Academics

Harvill Secker, London, England

The End of Eddy

En rentrant chez lui le soir de Noël, Édouard se fait aborder par Reda et l’invite à monter dans son studio. Toute la nuit, ils font l’amour, discutent, rient, se racontent leur vie… Jusqu’à ce que Reda sort un revolver de sa poche, menace Édouard, le viole et s’enfuit.Bien après les démarches médicales et judiciaires, Édouard se confie à sa sœur Clara. Lorsqu’il surprend ensuite le récit qu’elle en fait à son mari, les deux narrations se confrontent dans une spectaculaire opposition de langages et de réflexions.

Histoire de la violence (Points) (French Edition)

Contemporary

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