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The Hottest State

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Youthful passion meets achingly destructive love.

Ethan Hawke's "The Hottest State" will resonate with anyone who has experienced the tumult and turbulence of a first great love. His prose immerses you in the intensity and confusion of young passion, along with the pain of unbalanced affection. It's a raw and honest exploration of the exhilaration and devastation that love can bring, all written with the fresh perspective and emotional depth you'd expect from a multifaceted artist like Hawke.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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The Hottest State

Regular price ₱429.75 ₱292.05 32% off
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ISBN: 9780006550471
Authors: Ethan Hawke
Publisher: Flamingo
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Drama, Romance, Contemporary, Young Adult
Goodreads rating: 3.37
(rated by 3687 readers)

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Yes, it's "that" Ethan Hawke. Ethan Hawke the actor. In this slim debut novel, he tells a coming-of-age tale of a fairly unpleasant young actor from Texas named William who lives in Manhattan and is working his way through an ugly little relationship with a singer/songwriter named Sarah. Player of confused but adorable Gen X Romeos in films like Reality Bites and Before Sunrise, Hawke, 25, is easily conjured up as a stand-in for 21-year-old William Harding, the disaffected narrator of this slim first novel, a boy-meets-girl, girl-dumps-boy saga set in a grungy New York of aspiring actors, writers, and singers. That William, a college dropout and budding actor, falls fast and hard for Sarah Wingfield, who fronts a band, teaches preschool, and is a bit "funny looking," comes as a revelation to him, given his history of using his good looks for quick sex. Sarah casts William's sexual yearnings and his white trash boyhood into sharp relief by reading Adrienne Rich, toting a list of rape statistics, and refusing to sleep with him. Their doomed romance is intercut with William's memories of his parents' breakup, of talks with his best friend, and of his overheated teen relationship with Samantha, who still flits in and out of his life. When Sarah suddenly, inexplicably rejects him after William
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Youthful passion meets achingly destructive love.

Ethan Hawke's "The Hottest State" will resonate with anyone who has experienced the tumult and turbulence of a first great love. His prose immerses you in the intensity and confusion of young passion, along with the pain of unbalanced affection. It's a raw and honest exploration of the exhilaration and devastation that love can bring, all written with the fresh perspective and emotional depth you'd expect from a multifaceted artist like Hawke.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.