Praise for Ash Wednesday

‘Ash Wednesday, Ethan Hawke's story of disorder and early sorrow, succeeds because of a kind of rolling exuberance of style that carries one along the narrative freeway with no exits. Once you're on, you're on’
Larry McMurtry

‘His fiction, just like his film work, comes most clearly into focus when it gets down to the nitty-gritty. Dissecting the dirt and disappointment of love, his prose is earthy without ever being earthbound. Although it feels lush, there is never a word too many’
Esquire

‘Ethan Hawke’s second novel, Ash Wednesday, is the kind of thing you approach hoping that he may have put a foot wrong. Fact is he hasn’t. This is very definitely a book with a point of view … and a good one, too’
Publishing News

‘Hawke demonstrates a maturity of style and vision as well as a compelling sense of detail’
San Francisco Chronicle

‘You won’t be disappointed’
Glamour

‘An engrossing story of men and women, parents and children, love and loneliness’
She

Praise for The Hottest State

‘A sharp, moving tale’
Company

‘Obsessive first love is an enduring — and difficult — subject for first-time novelists, but Hawke has managed to encapsulate well the characteristics of a love affair doomed by one sidedness and the psychological breakdown which follows it … his writing is searingly open; his prose, full of the freshness of love and the agony of loss, is beguiling. The Hottest State captures beautifully the awfulness of being captured’
Mary Loudon, The Times

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

‘An impressive debut … seasoned with cynical but engaging wit’
Andrew Biswell, Daily Telegraph

‘Hawke does a fine job of showing what it's like to be young and full of confusion’
New York Times

‘Touching and engaging ... authenticity is what carries The Hottest State’
San Francisco Chronicle

‘Nicely filled with meditations on absent fathers, doubts about masculinity and a cast of feckless characters who have more hang-ups than a cloakroom’
Matthew De Abaitua, Esquire

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