Change : a method
Louis, Édouard2024
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Édouard Louis longs for a life beyond the poverty, discrimination and violence in his working-class hometown - so he sets out to study 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 obsession: 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.
Main title:
Change : a method / Edouard Louis ; translated by John Lambert.
Author:
Louis, Édouard, authorLambert, John, 1960-, translator
Imprint:
London : Harvill Secker, 2024.
Collation:
272 pages ; 23 cm
Notes:
Translated from the French.
ISBN:
9781787303256 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
843.92GEN
Language:
EnglishFrench
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BRN:
2418675