Change a novel
An autobiographical novel from Édouard Louis, hailed as one of the most important voices of his generation -- about social class, transformation, and the perils of leaving the past behind. One question took center stage in my life, it focused all of my thoughts and occupied every moment when I was...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English French |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2024.
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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| Summary: | An autobiographical novel from Édouard Louis, hailed as one of the most important voices of his generation -- about social class, transformation, and the perils of leaving the past behind. One question took center stage in my life, it focused all of my thoughts and occupied every moment when I was alone with how could I get this revenge, by what means? I tried everything. Édouard Louis longs for a life beyond the poverty, discrimination, and violence in his working -- class hometown -- so he sets out for school in Amiens, and, later, university in Paris. He sheds the provincial "Eddy" for an elegant new name, determined to eradicate every aspect of his past. He reads incessantly; he dines with aristocrats; he spends nights with millionaires and drug-dealers alike. Everything he does is motivated by a single to become someone else. At once harrowing and profound, Change is not just a personal odyssey, a story of dreams and of "the beautiful violence of being torn away," but a profound portrait of a society divided by class, power, and inequality. |
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| Physical Description: | 245 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780374606800 0374606803 |
| Author Notes: | Édouard Louis is the author of The End of Eddy , History of Violence , Who Killed My Father , and A Woman's Battles and Transformations . His work has appeared in The New York Times , The Guardian , and Freeman's . His books have been translated into thirty languages and have made him one of the most celebrated writers of his generation worldwide. He lives in Paris. |
