Books by Ethan Hawke and Complete Book Reviews

Ethan Hawke, Author . Knopf, $22.95 (221p) ISBN 978-0-375-41326-1
Sure he can act (and direct), but can he write? Readers and critics remained undecided after the publication of Hawke's first novel, The Hottest State, but most will respond with an encouraging "yes" to his enjoyable second novel, which...
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Ethan Hawke, Author Little Brown and Company $32 (208p) ISBN 978-0-316-54083-4
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-dum
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Ethan Hawke, Author Vintage Books USA $13.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-679-78135-6
The actor's first novel of young love in Manhattan. (Aug.)
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Ethan Hawke, illus. by Ryan Hawke. Knopf, $19.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-307-96233-1
Actor and author Hawke (Ash Wednesday) pens a heartwarming, medieval tale on ethics. Written in an epistolary form, Hawke writes from the perspective of his imagined ancestor Sir Thomas Lemuel Hawke, a knight who knows he is about to die in war. Sir
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Ethan Hawke, Author, Ethan Hawke, Performed by , read by the author. New Millennium $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59007-250-9
Hawke's protagonist, Jimmy Heartsick, is a bit like Holden Caulfield, except he sports a mustache ("Most guys with mustaches look like fags, but I don't. I touch mine too much, though. I touch it all the time"), drives a '69...
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Ethan Hawke and Greg Ruth. Grand Central, $19.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-4013-1099-8
Beautiful brushstrokes by Ruth (The Lost Boy) bring the conflict between the Apache and the United States in 1872 to life in a collaboration with actor Hawke that strives to escape Hollywood’s western mythos. Most U.S. troops are shown to be...
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Ethan Hawke. Knopf, $28.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-385352-38-3
Hawke (Ash Wednesday) dramatizes the struggles of a Hollywood actor whose marriage has just ended because of his infidelity in this uneven roman à clef. Thirty-two-year-old William Harding is best known for having cheated on his wife, superstar...
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Greg Ruth and Ethan Hawke. Grand Central, $26 (256p) ISBN 978-1-5387-1457-7
A troubled teen gets more than he bargained for in this Texas crime story, heavy with sticky-hot atmosphere and rippling with familial melodrama, from actor Hawke (A Bright Ray of Darkness) and Ruth (Indeh: A Story of the Apache Wars). Sick of his...
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