by Gilles Leroy · Folio · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070311200
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«Grandir» is a contemporary fiction novel by French writer Gilles Leroy, published by Folio in paperback (336 pages, in French).
In 1970s France, young Will grows up between visits to his cousins, workers in a glass factory, and the collapse of his family environment: divorce, unemployment, and dreams of a house of their own that drift away. The novel blends sharpness and tenderness to narrate his sentimental education, the awakening of desire, and the search for his identity.
The Folio paperback edition was published in August 2005.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in social portraiture and coming-of-age novels set in the 1970s.
Gilles Leroy is a French writer. He studied at the Lycée Lakanal in Sceaux, which appears in his 1996 novel Les Maîtres du monde as the "Lycée Ducasse". His novel Alabama song won the Prix Goncourt in 2007.
