Who Killed My Father (Signed First Edition)

Edouard Louis

ISBN 10: 0811228509 / ISBN 13: 9780811228503

Published by New Directions, New York., 2019

About this Item

New Directions, New York, 2019. First edition. First printing. Correct number sequence including the 1. Very Fine in a very fine dust jacket. A tight, clean copy, new and unread. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. NOT price clipped. Shipped in well padded box. Purchased new and opened only for author signature. You cannot find a better copy. SIGNED AND DATED by author on title page in the month of publication, May 2019.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Who Killed My Father (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: New Directions, New York.
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0811228509
• ISBN 13: 9780811228503
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

This bracing new nonfiction book by the young superstar E´douard Louis is both a searing j’accuse of the viciously entrenched French class system and a wrenchingly tender love letter to his father

This bracing new nonfiction book by the young superstar Édouard Louis is both a searing j’accuse of the viciously entrenched French class system and a wrenchingly tender love letter to his father.

Who Killed My Father rips into France’s long neglect of the working class and its overt contempt for the poor, accusing the complacent French―at the minimum―of negligent homicide.

The author goes to visit the ugly gray town of his childhood to see his dying father, barely fifty years old, who can hardly walk or breathe:“You belong to the category of humans whom politics consigns to an early death.” It’s as simple as that.

But hand in hand with searing, specific denunciations are tender passages of a love between father and son, once damaged by shame, poverty and homophobia. Yet tenderness reconciles them, even as the state is killing off his father. Louis goes after the French system with bare knuckles but turns to his long-alienated father with open arms: this passionate combination makes Who Killed My Father a heartbreaking book.

About the Author

Born Eddy Bellegueule in Hallencourt, France, in 1992, E´DOUARD LOUIS is a novelist and the editor of a scholarly work on the social scientist Pierre Bourdieu.