Książka „Ash Wednesday” amerykańskiego reżysera i aktora Ethana Hawke’a w angielskim oryginale.
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Ethan Hawke’s new novel is a piercing tale of love, marriage, and renewal.
Jimmy is AWOL from the army, hut—with characteristic fierceness and terror—he’s about to embark on the biggest commitment of his life. Christy is pregnant with Jimmy’s child, and she’s determined to head home, with or without Jimmy, to face up to her past and prepare for the future. Somehow, harreling across America tram Albany to New Orleans to Ohio and Texas in a souped-up Chevy Nova, Christy and Jimmy are transformed tram passionate but conflicted lovers into a young family on a magnificent journey.
„Ash Wednesday” is a novel of blazing emotion and remarkahle grace, a tale that captures the intensity—the excitement, fear, and joy—of being on the threshold ot the mysterious country of marriage and parenthood. Powerful, assured, large of heart, and punctuated by moments of tremendous humor, it represents, for Hawke the novelist, a major leap forward.
„Hawke’s witty narrative presents us with a pair of lively and surprisingly earnest pilgrims.” —The New York Times Book Review
„Succeeds because of a kind of rolling exuherance of style that carries one along a narrative freeway with no exits. Once you’re on, you’re
on.” Larry McMurtry
„[Hawke] displays a novelist’s innate gifts. He has a sharp eye, a fluid storytelling voice and the imagination to create complicated individuals.” The New York Times
Format 10,5×17,5 cm, strony 221, miękka okładka.
Stan dobry (małe otarcia okładki).
ISBN: 9781400034079
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