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Change: A Method
By (Author) Edouard Louis
Translated by John Lambert
Vintage Publishing
Harvill Secker
27th February 2024
8th February 2024
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Fiction in translation
Narrative theme: Identity / belonging
Narrative theme: Love and relationships
Narrative theme: Social issues
Hardback
288
Width 144mm, Height 222mm, Spine 28mm
407g
The major new novel from the once-in-a-generation author of The End of Eddy The major new novel from the international bestselling author douard Louis - about social class, transformation, and the perils of leaving the past behind. 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. douard 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.
Edouard Louis (Author) douard Louis is the author of The End of Eddy, History of Violence and Who Killed My Father, and the editor of a book on the social scientist Pierre Bourdieu. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages, making him one of the most celebrated writers of his generation worldwide.