{"product_id":"the-end-of-eddy","title":"The End of Eddy","description":"\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, 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.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 1250619270\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9781250619273\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Louis, Édouard, Lucey, Michael\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Nov 2019)","offer_id":46291867173061,"sku":"9781250619273","price":17.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9781250619273.jpg?v=1780113209","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/the-end-of-eddy","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}