The End of Eddy: A Novel

Born Eddy Bellegueule in Hallencourt, France, in 1992, Édouard Louis is the author of two novels 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.

"The real achievement of the book is not its reportage, but its attitude. It is written entirely without self pity - and, astonishingly, without judgment... courageous, necessary and deeply touching" -- Neil Bartlett * Guardian * "It is a brutal, forceful, gripping read. There is no hipster posing, no ironic distance; its anger and rawness make it refreshing. He has something to say - and it's worth listening to... I suspect we'll be hearing more of Edouard Louis. He is that relatively rare thing - a novelist with something to say and a willingness to say it, without holding back" -- Robbie Millen * The Times * "A candid, necessary call against conventional definitions of masculinity and the fear of difference" -- Claire Kohda Hazelton * Observer * "Extraordinary... In prose that revels in describing pain and deprivation, moments of extreme tenderness surface even in the midst of violence" -- Tash Aw * London Review of Books * "An intensely autobiographical novel that spares no one...this young French writer has captured a candid, unaffected voice that resonates... Publisher's hype all to often fails to deliver, but not this time" -- Eileen Battersby * Irish Times *