It's clear to everyone, especially him, that he doesn't fit in. When we first meet Eddy Bellegueule, he's being beaten up at school. Just released in a highly readable translation by Michael Lucey, this painfully insightful tale of entrapment and escape could've easily been set in Michigan or West Virginia. Yet Louis' account of growing up gay and poor in a working-class village isn't only a story about France. During that country's recent election - in which Emmanuel Macron defeated the right-wing populist Marine Le Pen - Louis' autobiographical novel The End of Eddy was seen as a bulletin from the enraged heart of Le Pen country. In France, 24-year-old literary sensation Édouard Louis has played a similar role. Vance, whose book, Hillbilly Elegy, is looked on as a kind of Rosetta Stone to the psyche of forgotten America. In America, this helped make a star of J.D. How?Įver since the twin surprises of Brexit and Donald Trump's political rise, Western media has been obsessed with what's going on in the minds of rural and working-class people. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The End of Eddy Author Edouard Louis and Michael Lucey
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