The End of Eddy, Edouard Louis
The End of Eddy, Edouard Louis
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The End of Eddy

Author: Édouard Louis, Michael Lucey

Narrator: Graham Halstead

Unabridged: 4 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/02/2017


Synopsis

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.

About Édouard Louis

Born Eddy Bellegueule in Hallencourt, France, in 1992, Édouard Louis is the author of two novels and the editor of a scholarly work on the social scientist Pierre Bourdieu. He is the coauthor, with the philosopher Geoffroy de Lagasnerie, of “Manifesto for an Intellectual and Political Counteroffensive,” published in English by the Los Angeles Review of Books.


Reviews

Goodreads review by . . . _ _ _ . . . on August 30, 2018

*[enter] γλώσσα μεσημεριανάδικου* "Συγκλονιστική κατάθεση ψυχής" Μπορεί, αλλά ο,τιδήποτε πάνω από 3 αστέρια είναι sympathy vote ΥΓ : ακολουθούν κι άλλα δύο βιβλία, στο δεύτερο βιβλίο περιγράφει πως τον βίασαν, στο τρίτο... Ζ' αν ε μαρ... ΥΓ2 : αν ξέρετε τίποτα γαλλικούλια, διαβάστε αυτό : [URL not allowed]......more

Goodreads review by merixien on May 28, 2021

Kuzey Fransa’da cinsiyet rollerine körü körüne bağlı, geleneksel eril bir ortamda büyüyen Eddy Bellegueule ya da bildiğimiz haliyle Edouard Louis’nin hikayesi. Eddy’nin çocukluğundan itibaren hayatının merkezinde şiddet, toksik erkeklik, homofobi, alkolizm, yoksulluk, ırkçılık ve cehalet var. Fransa......more

Goodreads review by Flo on May 05, 2024

Will it ever be easier growing up gay in a small town? Have things really changed? I think one of the great qualities of this autobiographical novel was how atemporal it felt at times. I constantly forgot that Édouard Louis's experience was quite recent. "From my childhood I have no happy memories. I......more

Goodreads review by Juan on March 13, 2020

Hacía MUCHO tiempo que no leía un libro de tanta importancia y que me calase tanto. Lo he devorado en tres sentadas porque lo que cuenta lo hemos sufrido muchos, pero es algo de lo que se habla poco en el arte. "Para acabar con Eddy Bellegueule" es una autobiografía y una novela y un ensayo: sobre l......more