EAN: 9781524712006

A BRIGHT RAY OF DARKNESS - ETHAN HAWKE KARTONIE...

The first novel in nearly twenty years from the acclaimed actor writer director is a book about
art and love  fame and heartbreak--a blistering story of a young man making his Broadway debut
in Henry IV just as his marriage implodes. A bracing meditation on fame and celebrity  and the
redemptive  healing power of art  a portrait of the ravages of disappointment and divorce  a
poignant consideration of the rites of fatherhood and manhood  a novel soaked in rage and sex 
longing and despair  and a passionate love letter to the world of theater  A Bright Ray of
Darkness showcases Ethan Hawke's gifts as a novelist as never before. Hawke's narrator is a
young man in torment  disgusted with himself after the collapse of his marriage  still
half-hoping for a reconciliation that would allow him to forgive himself and move on as he
clumsily  and sometimes hilariously  tries to manage the wreckage of his personal life with
whiskey and sex. What saves him is theater: in particular  the challenge of performing the role
of Hotspur in a production of Henry IV under the leadership of a brilliant director  helmed by
one of the most electrifying--and narcissistic--Falstaff's of all time. Searing  raw  and
utterly transfixing  A Bright Ray of Darkness is a novel about shame and beauty and faith  and
the moral power of art.

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