The end of Eddy / Édouard Louis ; translated from the French by Michael Lucey.

"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.

First published as En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule (Paris : Éditions du Seuil, 2014).