{"title":"Édouard Louis","description":"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 ofNever 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.","products":[{"product_id":"the-end-of-eddy-paperback","title":"The End of Eddy - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe celebrated debut novel from Édouard Louis: the \"equal parts frank, provocative and compelling\" (\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e) coming-of-age story about growing up gay in a working-class town in Picardy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTranslated into more than 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.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101884911839,"sku":"9781250449801","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/aOHSqYC4cs9781250449801.webp?v=1781075823"},{"product_id":"history-of-violence-paperback","title":"History of Violence - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA gripping autobiographical novel from literary sensation Édouard Louis, \"both brave and ambitious in its determination never to let its reader, or its author, escape lightly the damaging realities it describes\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn Christmas Eve 2012, in Paris, Édouard Louis was raped and almost murdered by a man he had just met. This act of violence left Louis shattered; its aftermath made him a stranger to himself and sent him back to the village, the family, and the past he had sworn to leave behind. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA bestseller in France, \u003ci\u003eHistory of Violence\u003c\/i\u003e is a short nonfiction novel in the tradition of Truman Capote's \u003ci\u003eIn Cold Blood\u003c\/i\u003e, but with the victim as its subject. Moving seamlessly and hypnotically between past and present, between Louis's voice and the voice of an imagined narrator, \u003ci\u003eHistory of Violence \u003c\/i\u003ehas the exactness of a police report and the searching, unflinching curiosity of memoir at its best. It records not only the casual racism and homophobia of French society but also their subtle effects on lovers, brothers and sisters, husbands and wives. It represents a great step forward for a young writer whose acuity, skill, and depth are unmatched by any of his generation, in French or English.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101886910687,"sku":"9781250449818","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/ITbOGm9it49781250449818.webp?v=1781075827"},{"product_id":"change-paperback","title":"Change - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Year by \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e, BBC, and Hudson Booksellers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e Recommended Read of the Year \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn autobiographical novel from Édouard Louis--\"one of the most important, politically vital and morally bracing writers of his generation\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e)--about social class, transformation, and the perils of leaving the past behind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne question took center stage in my life, it focused all of my thoughts and occupied every moment when I was alone with myself: how could I get this revenge, by what means? I tried everything.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eÉdouard Louis longs for a life beyond the poverty, discrimination, and violence in his working-class hometown--so he sets out for school in Amiens and, later, university in Paris. He sheds the provincial \"Eddy\" for an elegant new name, determined to eradicate every aspect of his past. He reads incessantly; he dines with aristocrats; he spends nights with millionaires and drug dealers alike. Everything he does is motivated by a single obsession: to become someone else. At once harrowing and profound, \u003ci\u003eChange\u003c\/i\u003e is not just a personal odyssey, a story of dreams and of \"the beautiful violence of being torn away,\" but a profound portrait of a society divided by class, power, and inequality.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101889794271,"sku":"9781250449825","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/Ies1PU2lLu9781250449825.webp?v=1781075833"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/edouard-louis.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}