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

__________________________ 'Ethan Hawke is a true writer and his duality as an artist is
skilfully reflected in A Bright Ray of Darkness. Hawke circles  descends  and crawls into his
characters skin. Grimy shadows pass over the footlights  into the bowels of the theatre  where
a struggling actor  perhaps mirroring the writer  seeks the vine of redemption  and claws his
way into becoming. Bright Ray is a riveting work.' PATTI SMITH The first novel in nearly twenty
years from the acclaimed actor writer director  A BRIGHT RAY OF DARKNESS is a book about art
and love  fame and heartbreak -- a blistering story of a young man making his Broadway debut
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 theatre  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 whisky and sex.
What saves him is the theatre: in particular  the challenge of performing Shakespeare in his
Broadway debut under the leadership of a brilliant director. 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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