{"product_id":"the-end-of-eddy-paperback","title":"The End of Eddy - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\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\u003eThe celebrated debut novel from Édouard Louis: the \"equal parts frank, provocative and compelling\" (\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e) coming-of-age story about growing up gay in a working-class town in Picardy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTranslated into more than twenty 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eÉdouard Louis\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe End of Eddy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHistory of Violence\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWho Killed My Father\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Woman's Battles and Transformations\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eChange\u003c\/i\u003e, and the editor of a book on the social scientist Pierre Bourdieu. His work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFreeman's\u003c\/i\u003e. His books have been translated into thirty languages and have made him one of the most celebrated writers of his generation worldwide. He lives in Paris. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Lucey \u003c\/b\u003eis a professor of French literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of\u003ci\u003e Never Say I: Sexuality and the First Person in Colette, Gide, and Proust\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Misfit of the Family: Balzac and the Social Forms of Sexuality\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eSomeone: The Pragmatics of Misfit Sexualities, from Colette to Hervé Guibert\u003c\/i\u003e; and has translated \u003ci\u003eReturning to Reims \u003c\/i\u003eby Didier Eribon.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 7.4 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 05, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43338655170649,"sku":"9781250449801","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0736\/6465\/9545\/files\/aOHSqYC4cs9781250449801.webp?v=1779426860","url":"https:\/\/warrenssanctuaryofthemind.myshopify.com\/de\/products\/the-end-of-eddy-paperback","provider":"Warren's sanctuary of the mind","version":"1.0","type":"link"}