{"product_id":"the-end-of-eddy-a-novel","title":"The End of Eddy: A Novel","description":"An autobiographical novel about growing up gay in a working-class town in Picardy.\n\n“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.\n\nAlready 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.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0374266654\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.0374266654.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Louis, Édouard|Lucey, Michael\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Pages are clean with no markings. May show minor signs of wear or cosmetic defects  marks, cuts, bends, or scuffs  on the cover, spine, pages, or dust jacket. May have remainder marks on edges.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41518851653690,"sku":"DBV.0374266654.VG","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0374266654-0.jpg?v=1783916641","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/the-end-of-eddy-a-novel","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}