![]() ![]() He legally changed his name shortly before this book was published. ![]() The French wunderkind Édouard Louis was born Eddy Bellegueule in Hallencourt, a derelict factory town north of Paris. And whatever the book accomplishes or represents for the academic community, The End of Eddy is a good read, a raw and profoundly personal narrative that we find accessible in this translation, with its rough edges intact. It has generated a cyclone of sociopolitical, class-based analysis. The book appeared in French in 2014, when the author was 21, and is newly available in English as well as 20 other languages. ![]() In The End of Eddy, a young gay writer takes us to his home village, a hotbed of right-wing, homophobic discontent in Northern France, and delivers a corollary message that can both depress and inspire us. readers a phenomenon that many of us are still struggling to grasp: the support for Donald Trump in communities scarred by poverty, violence, and hopelessness. Last year’s blockbuster memoir Hillbilly Elegy, by J.D. ![]()
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