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---- Noms: Lammy, Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation ----
A MOVING ACCOUNT ABOUT 𝗚𝗥𝗢𝗪𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗨𝗣 𝗚𝗔𝗬 IN A WORKING-CLASS, 𝗛𝗢𝗠𝗢𝗣𝗛𝗢𝗕𝗜𝗖 𝗙𝗔𝗖𝗢𝗥𝗬 𝗩𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗔𝗚𝗘 IN NORTHERN 𝗙𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗘, & HOW HIS GAYNESS ACTUALLY 𝗘𝗠𝗣𝗢𝗪𝗘𝗥𝗘𝗗 HIM TO ESCAPE.
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"𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 '𝙃𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙗𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙀𝙡𝙚𝙜𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙁𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚' 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘯𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘺. 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘢 𝙢𝙚𝙨𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙯𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 & 𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦, 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘢𝘳 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙘 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣 𝙢𝙤𝙨𝙩.”
SUMMARY: “Every morning in the bathroom I would repeat the same phrase to myself over & over again . . . Today I’m really gonna be a 𝘁𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗴𝘂𝘆.”
Growing up in a 𝗽𝗼𝗼𝗿 𝘃𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗻𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲, all Eddy wanted was to be a man in the eyes of his family & neighbors. But from childhood, he was different - “girlish,” intellectually precocious ... & 𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗺𝗲𝗻.
Édouard Louis grew up in Hallencourt, a village in northern France where many live below the poverty line. His bestselling debut novel about life there has𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗱𝗲𝗯𝗮𝘁𝗲 on social inequality, sexuality & violence. It is an extraordinary portrait of escaping from an 𝘂𝗻𝗯𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗱, inspired by the author’s own. Written with an openness & compassionate intelligence, ultimately, it asks, 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘄𝗲 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗼𝗺?
Already translated into 20 languages, this captures the violence & desperation of life in a French factory town. It's also a sensitive, universal portrait of 𝗯𝗼𝘆𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗱 & 𝘀𝗲𝘅𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝘄𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴. Like Karl Ove Knausgaard or Edmund White, Édouard Louis writes from his own undisguised experience, but he writes with an openness & a compassionate intelligence that are all his own. The result - a 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 & 𝗽𝗼𝗽𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝘁𝗿𝗶𝘂𝗺𝗽𝗵 - has made him the 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗯𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗵 𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿 of his generation.
"Before I had a chance to rebel against the world of my childhood, that world rebelled against me. In truth, confronting my parents, my social class, its poverty, racism & brutality came second. From early on I provoked shame & even disgust from my family & others around me. The only option I had was to get away somehow. 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁."
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“𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙮 𝘮𝘢𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘱𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝙣𝙪𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙙 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 & 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘯𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙜-𝙤𝙛-𝙖𝙜𝙚 𝙘𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙘.”
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