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Ja -- "der" Ethan Hawke. Ethan Hawke, der Schauspieler. In diesem mageren Entwicklungsroman -- seinem Erstlingswerk -- erzählt er die Geschichte von William, einem ziemlich unangenehmen jungen Schauspieler aus Texas, der in Manhattan lebt und sich gerade durch eine häßliche, kleine Beziehung zu einer Liedermacherin namens Sarah kämpft. Williams Eltern heirateten jung und trennten sich bald wieder, und er ist nicht allzu glücklich mit der Welt im allgemeinen. Sarah wird aus ihrer Mutter nicht ganz schlau. Die zwei haben Sex im Badezimmer und unterhalten sich ziemlich oft über ihre Beziehung. Es klingt alles irgendwie nach Wahrheit, aber an dieser Stelle kann man wohl getrost behaupten, daß Hawkes Filmagent mit dem jungen Schauspieler und Schriftsteller wahrscheinlich viel besser verdienen wird als dessen Literaturagent.

207 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1996

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Format
207 pages, Paperback
Published
January 1, 2001 by Kiepenheuer \u0026 Witsch Verlag
ISBN
9783462030631
ASIN
3462030639
Language
German

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Ethan Green Hawke is an American actor, author, and film director. He made his film debut in Explorers (1985), before making a breakthrough performance in Dead Poets Society (1989). Hawke starred alongside Julie Delpy in Richard Linklater's Before trilogy from 1995 to 2013. Hawke received two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Training Day (2001) and Boyhood (2014) and two for Best Adapted Screenplay for co-writing Before Sunset (2004) and Before Midnight (2013). Other notable roles include in Reality Bites (1994), Gattaca (1997), Great Expectations (1998), Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007), Maggie's Plan (2015), First Reformed (2017), The Black Phone (2021), and The Northman (2022).
Hawke directed the narrative films Chelsea Walls (2001), The Hottest State (2006), and Blaze (2018) as well as the documentary Seymour: An Introduction (2014). He created, co-wrote and starred as John Brown in the Showtime limited series The Good Lord Bird (2018), and directed the HBO Max documentary series The Last Movie Stars (2022). He starred in the Marvel television miniseries Moon Knight (2022) as Arthur Harrow.
In addition to his film work, Hawke has appeared in many theater productions. He made his Broadway debut in 1992 in Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, and was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play in 2007 for his performance in Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia. In 2010, Hawke directed Sam Shepard's A Lie of the Mind, for which he received a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Director of a Play. In 2018, he starred in the Roundabout Theater Company's revival of Sam Shepard's play True West.
He has received numerous nominations including a total of four Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Tony Award.

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Thatguy31
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April 25,2025
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Unfortunately I couldn’t connect with the story or the main character very much. It was odd reading a romance-ish book from the males perspective, especially when that perspective is Ethan Hawke. It has moments that are too early 90s homophobic and harks too much on acting masculine during a messy breakup. The most enjoyable moments are the ramblings on life and growing up, the personal stories of family and finding your path. Luckily it was a quick read or I may have given up halfway through.
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haikal1199
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April 25,2025
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I've read another of  Ethan Hawke and thought he was good. So when I saw this book in the free box I couldn't just pass it up laughing that an actor actually thinks he can write too(like I could at a Mel Gibson or Bruce Willis novel). Quite contrary, Hawke has a writing voice that is simple, direct, and sometimes ingenious. Check out one of his character's resolutions: "I want to never waste energy degrading someone else. Also, I want to try not see life as a competition. If I can do these two things, as well as keep myself from being checked into an alcoholic rehabilitation center, then I figure I'll be A-OK" (182).

This book reads like a good satisfying meal. It's a romance written from a budding hopeless romantic's perspective. Perfect in length and depth. A good page turner.
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noutong
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April 25,2025
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OMG YOU GUYS did you know that Ethan Hawke wrote a novel? Two novels, actually. And now you know all that you need to know about this book.
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proxyunited
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April 25,2025
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An incredibly visceral, raw wound of a book, perfectly detailing everyone's experience of obsessive, passionate love that ends badly.

'I loved that stupid girl so much', he says. If you can't identify with that statement on some level, you have no heart...

A great debut from a promising author, who has far surpassed expectations as an actor/writer/artist.

A quick read that's very easy to pick up again, even if it has the effect of giving you an ear to ear grin at the start and ending with you feeling like you've been gutted.

An incredible, emotional experience.
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A_hsaoruk_A
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April 25,2025
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Anyone with enough dedication could’ve written this. Maybe that’s why I kind of enjoyed it.

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siovannie
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April 25,2025
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I was impressed by the transparency of a young Hawke's writing ability, allowing nastier parts of his budding romantic life to slip into this quasi autobiography. He would later go on to cheat on worldie Uma Thurman, which he writes about in the sequel of this book, also obviously memoir-like. I've looked up to Hawke majority of my life, thinking of him as a paragon of artistry, and knowing that he was probably once a doomed lover reciting soliloquies and destroying his apartment, troubled and scared, fatherless and bitter, I have a renewed interest in him, peeling back a layer that reveals something so much more interesting -- an adult perspective on a childhood hero.
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MissTortoise
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April 25,2025
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A literary masterpiece, no - a self-gratifying read, yes. This is one of a few, well perhaps the only book, that I have read multiple times. I often visual the characters in my head, turning them into a movie, and he does a spectacular job at making the characters and their often heart-wrenching journey come alive.
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