Change : a novel
Louis, Édouard2025
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One question took centre stage in my life, it focused all of my thoughts and occupied every moment when I was alone with myself: 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 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.
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Main title:
Change : a novel / Édouard Louis ; translated by John Lambert.
Author:
Louis, Édouard, authorLambert, John, 1960-, translator
Work:
Imprint:
London : Vintage, 2025.
Collation:
272 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the French.
ISBN:
9781529931587 (pbk)
Dewey class:
843.92FICTION
Language:
EnglishFrench
Added title:
BRN:
3924623