{"product_id":"9780374716394","title":"The End of Eddy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn autobiographical novel about growing up gay in a working-class town in Picardy.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Every morning in the bathroom I would repeat the same phrase to myself over and over again . . . \u003ci\u003eToday I’m really gonna be a tough guy.\u003c\/i\u003e” 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlready translated into twenty languages, \u003ci\u003eThe End of Eddy\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121463935216,"sku":"9780374716394","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780374716394_p0.jpg?v=1769891531","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780374716394","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}