TY - BOOK AU - Louis,Edouard AU - Lucey,Michael TI - The end of Eddy SN - 9780099598466 (paperback) U1 - 843/.92 23 PY - 2018/// CY - London PB - Vintage KW - Young men KW - Fiction KW - Adolescence KW - Working poor KW - Gender identity KW - Gay men KW - Coming of age KW - Picardy (France) KW - France, Northern KW - Autobiographical fiction KW - lcgft KW - Bildungsromans N1 - Originally published in French as En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule: Paris : Éditions du Seuil, 2014; First published in hardback by Harvill Secker in 2017; Translated from the French N2 - Édouard Louis grew up in a village in northern France where many live below the poverty line. His bestselling debut novel about life there, The End of Eddy, has sparked debate on social inequality, sexuality and violence. It is an extraordinary portrait of escaping from an unbearable childhood, inspired by the author?s own. Written with an openness and compassionate intelligence, ultimately, it asks, how can we create our own freedom? ER -