The Hottest State - Softcover

Hawke, Ethan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679781358 ISBN 13: 9780679781356

Publisher: Vintage Books, 1997

Synopsis

Encountering Sarah in a bar called the Bitter End, William, a spoiled young actor, falls deeply in love for the first time and embarks on an affair that takes him from a Lower East Side tenement to Paris and to a love and loss that transforms his life. A first novel. Reissue. (A ThinkFilm/IFC Films movie, written & directed by Ethan Hawke, releasing August 2007, starring Mark Webber, Jesse Harris, Laura Linney, Ethan Hawke, & Michelle Williams) (General Fiction)

About this title

Review:

‘A sharp, moving tale’
Company

‘A lust story that crackles and burns like a firework... a likeable book, nicely filled with meditations on absent fathers, doubts about masculinity and a cast of feckless characters who have more hang-ups than a cloakroom.’
Esquire

‘The ideal gift for that ever-so-slightly-self-absorbed young person of your dreams.’
GQ

‘An impressive debut’
Daily Telegraph

From the Back Cover:

With disarming emotional honesty, Ethan Hawke's first novel captures that agitated, electric moment between youth and adulthood when every new feeling becomes a source of mystery and wonder, and every experience seems overlaid with staggering possibility or certain doom. Hawke's narrator will be disconcertingly familiar to anyone who has ever felt the fierceness of young love: Meeting Sarah catapults William into a world of shame and ardor and unspeakable tenderness, and in six head-spinning months he comes to know both the restless, overmastering ache of first love and the wild and ruinous grief it leaves behind.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Books
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0679781358
• ISBN 13: 9780679781356
• Binding: Paperback