{"product_id":"the-end-of-eddy-a-novel-9781250181992","title":"The End of Eddy: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn 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 Im 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 differentgirlish  intellectually precocious  and attracted to other men.  Already translated into twenty-nine 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  douard Louis writes from his own undisguised experience  but he writes with an openness and a compassionate intelligence that are all his own. The resulta critical and popular triumphhas made him the most celebrated French writer of his generation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67924575584309,"sku":"ByrdShop_1250181992","price":66.37,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781250181992.jpg?v=1794137157","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-end-of-eddy-a-novel-9781250181992","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}