Ash Wednesday

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  Ash Wednesday by Ethan Hawke Bloomsbury, £6.99 Can Ethan Hawke emulate Dirk Bogarde's transition from pretty-but-slightly-vapid piece of screen crumpet to man of letters? His second novel is a competent affair, though the identikit, Bukowski-inspired ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

• Ash Wednesday By Ethan Hawke

  Love on the run: Ethan Hawke's new novel test drives marriageEthan Hawke yes, the scruffy, slightly bohemian actor from films such as Training Day and Reality Bites isn't content to act, direct and enjoy married life with the lovely Uma Thurman. He's ... (read full critics)

  bookpage published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

4 Reviews

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  Hawke, my everlasting passion.

  Hooked on it, 'in a heartbeat'...thunderous applause, standing ovation...

  By the way, screw the thwarters, he IS A WRITER and a wondrous one at that.

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  Turpentine said on Aug 18, 2010 | Add your feedback

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  inside and outside

  I truly enjoyed this book, I should rate it 5 stars instead than 4. I totally enjoied the way he would let us inside the head of the male character as well as in the thoughts of the female character and how right when you are rolling, thinking like them, sbam you are out, back into the facts of life ... (continue)

  I truly enjoyed this book, I should rate it 5 stars instead than 4. I totally enjoied the way he would let us inside the head of the male character as well as in the thoughts of the female character and how right when you are rolling, thinking like them, sbam you are out, back into the facts of life. Very truthful, very engaging. Complete and well written.

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  moscanna said on Apr 2, 2010 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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  I think that the fact that I couldn't like the characters, affected my reading. I think they are more related to movie world thatn to the real one...
  Sometime I found the book boring too. Part could have been cut without losing the story line.

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  Lizzyblack said on Mar 19, 2008 | Add your feedback

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  What touches me most about this book is Hawke's attentions to little details. He surely had written it with heart and had meticulously composed each scene, each conversation.
  I also like that the characters were no caricatures. I felt like they were real, flesh and blood people, that they man ... (continue)

  What touches me most about this book is Hawke's attentions to little details. He surely had written it with heart and had meticulously composed each scene, each conversation.
  I also like that the characters were no caricatures. I felt like they were real, flesh and blood people, that they managed to be complex but childish, spontaneous yet sometimes reflective.
  I would say it's a good read. It may not be written in the most beautiful language, but you feel like it's not just a fiction, but something moving and bears some reality.
  The name of the author may catch your eye. It caught mine, at least, Ethan Hawke, I remember him from "Alive", the movie about surviving on Andes.

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  Magdalene said on Aug 23, 2007 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Paperback 240 Pages
• Edition: Reprint
• ISBN-10: 0375718850
• ISBN-13: 9780375718854
• Publisher: Vintage
• Pub date: Jun 10, 2003
• Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Unbound and Others
• In other languages: other languages Libri Italiani

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