Catalogue

Record Details

Catalogue Search


Back To Results
Showing Item 1 of 19

The end of Eddy  Cover Image Book Book

The end of Eddy

Louis, Édouard (author.). Lucey, Michael, (translator.).

Summary: "A coming-of-age story from Europe traces how a young gay man in a violent French factory village navigates his orientation and intellectually precocious nature while enduring pressure to become a strong man in accordance with local beliefs."--Provided by the publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780374266653
  • ISBN: 0374266654
  • ISBN: 9781250619273
  • Physical Description: print
    192 pages ; 20 cm
  • Edition: First American edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"Originally published in French in 2014 by Seuil, France, as En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule"--Title page verso.
Subject: Adolescence -- Fiction
Gay teenagers -- Fiction
Homophobia -- Fiction
Self-acceptance -- Fiction
Villages -- France -- Fiction
Working poor -- Fiction
Young men -- France -- Fiction
Picardy (France) -- Fiction
Genre: Autobiographical fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Gay fiction.
French fiction.

Available copies

  • 2 of 3 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 0 of 1 copy available at Sechelt/Gibsons. (Show)
  • 0 of 1 copy available at Gibsons Public Library.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 3 total copies.
Show Only Available Copies
Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Holdable? Status Due Date
Gibsons Public Library FIC LOUI (Text) 30886000789111 Adult Fiction Hardcover Volume hold Checked out 2024-04-16

Born Eddy Bellegueule in Hallencourt, France, in 1992, Édouard Louis is a novelist 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.

Michael Lucey is a professor of French literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Never Say I: Sexuality and the First Person in Colette, Gide, and Proust and The Misfit of the Family: Balzac and the Social Forms of Sexuality, and has translated Returning to Reims by Didier Eribon.

Back To Results
Showing Item 1 of 19

Additional Resources