{"product_id":"the-end-of-eddy","title":"The End of Eddy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"--\n\n\"An autobiographical novel about growing up gay in a working-class town in Picardy\"--\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GARDNERS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63979402953053,"sku":"9780099598466","price":12.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/3459\/8749\/files\/content_5a73197b-8223-4bf6-b5b7-1391f5f93602.png?v=1774456393","url":"https:\/\/www.thebookmark.ie\/products\/the-end-of-eddy","provider":"The Bookmark ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}