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Also by Ethan Hawke:

A Bright Ray of Darkness, January 2022
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Ash Wednesday, June 2003
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The Hottest State, October 1997
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ASH WEDNESDAY
By: Ethan Hawke

Vintage
June 2003
On Sale: June 10, 2003
240 pages
ISBN: 0375718850
EAN: 9780375718854
Kindle: B000FA64VY
Paperback / e-Book
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Contemporary | Fiction Family Life

From the actor, director, and writer Ethan Hawke: a piercing novel of love, marriage, and renewal.

Jimmy is AWOL from the army, but—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, barreling across America from Albany to New Orleans to Ohio and Texas in a souped-up Chevy Nova, Christy and Jimmy are transformed from passionate but conflicted lovers into a young family on a magnificent journey.

Ash Wednesday is a novel of blazing emotion and remarkable grace, a tale that captures the intensity—the excitement, fear, and joy—of being on the threshold of 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.

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