The End of Eddy

Reviews / Votes

When new voices come from underrepresented constituencies, there's always the hope of a new perspective... I can read Edouard Louis and know something of what it means to grow up in extreme poverty in contemporary France -- Zadie Smith * Observer * When new voices come from underrepresented constituencies, there's always the hope of a new perspective... I can read Edouard Louis and know something of what it means to grow up in extreme poverty in contemporary France -- Zadie Smith * Observer * Even in the wake of Knausgaard and Ferrante it is hard to find a literary phenomenon that has swept Europe quite like the autobiographical project of Edouard Louis * LitHub * An extraordinary autobiographical novel about class, violence and sexuality in France. It's a vivid, often brutal but immensely touching book that restores my faith in the power of literature -- Tash Aw This is the courageous story of an outsider, in equal parts frank, provocative and compelling -- Laura Garmeson * Financial Times * Stunning... A startling use of the extremely personal to convey a message that is universally relevant * Vice * An intelligent, revelatory book -- Claire Lowdon * The Sunday Times * 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 *