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Synopsis
One question took center 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 has received international acclaim for his vivid, unflinching accounts of poverty and homophobia in his autobiographical novels, such as A Woman's Battles and Transformations and The End of Eddy. Now, in Change: A Method, he turns his keen eye upon himself, investigating his youth like never before: the people he idolized and emulated, the manners he adopted to blend in at elegant tables, the daily and nightly jobs he undertook to make a living, the injuries of the past and the impossibility of escape.
A question pulses, urgent and demanding: "Am I doomed always to hope for another life?" Louis mines emotion, true and deep to the core, as he addresses past friends, lovers, and selves, and attempts to belong, to be loved, to succeed, and--at all costs--to change.
Synopsis
An autobiographical novel from the international bestselling author douard Louis--about success, 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 myself: how could I get this revenge, by what means? I tried everything.
douard Louis has received international acclaim for his vivid, unflinching accounts of poverty and homophobia in his autobiographical novels, such as A Woman's Battles and Transformations and The End of Eddy. Now, in Change: A Method, he turns his keen eye upon himself, investigating his youth like never before: the people he idolized and emulated, the manners he adopted to blend in at elegant tables, the daily and nightly jobs he undertook to make a living, the injuries of the past and the impossibility of escape.
A question pulses, urgent and demanding: "Am I doomed always to hope for another life?" Louis mines emotion, true and deep to the core, as he addresses past friends, lovers, and selves, and attempts to belong, to be loved, to succeed, and--at all costs--to change.
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An autobiographical novel from author douard 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 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.