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Title: Ash Wednesday by Ethan Hawke ISBN: 0-375-71885-0 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 10 June, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.78 (49 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Really Good Novel
Comment: Ash Wednesday, written by Ethan Hawke, is an amazing novel that captures the passion of love and marriage between a bright young couple. It's about a young sergeant in the military (James Heartsock) (a.k.a. Jimmy) and his beautiful pregnant girlfriend (Christy Walker) who travels from New York to Texas where Christy's family resides. Christy has decided to leave Albany and head home to Houston to prepare and settle for a new life with her future child regardless if Jimmy comes along on not. She gives Jimmy the chance to either come with her or stay behind with the military. Jimmy has to decide whether he prefers his position in the military or Christy who is pregnant. It's a time where he needs to make the biggest decision that could forever change his life. Finally, he makes the decision to choose his lover over his post, leaving the military behind. Everything was going really well until they got married in Ohio before reaching Texas. Shortly after their marriage, they encounter their most crucial time of life in New Orleans during their honeymoon in which they could lose their baby. The doctor tells them that the baby might be dead because the baby has no heartbeats, which should be quite clear at 20 weeks. Christy doesn't want to believe that the fact that her baby could be dead. Therefore they leave this hospital in search for a better hospital in Houston. On their way to Houston, a cop pulls them over for speeding and arrests Jimmy for AWOL from the military while Christy is taken to a hospital in Houston. In the end, Jimmy's actions result into a dishonorable discharge but fortunately Christy returns back to him with a smile on her face.
After reading only a few pages from Ash Wednesday, I became interested in Ethan Hawke's style of writing because it'll throw surprises that you'll definitely like. His fascinating style of language was what caught my attention in the first place. His words show how realistic people would talk and interact with each other. I would recommend this remarkable novel written by this author who is also an actor for it shows how it deals with the reality of life. The story carries one into another world that involves passion,..., youth pregnancy, marriage, family, and the start of parenthood. Through this book, I have learned to a great extent of the values of family and love. If you're someone who loves to read about romance and family, you'll completely find Ash Wednesday a novel to remember.
Rating: 4
Summary: Yay! A good book.
Comment: Ethan Hawke wrote a good book about love, the fear of losing that love, and then coming to realize what both of those things mean to a person. Thoughtful insights into becoming a parent, also. Plus, as an Ohioan, I love to read things or hear things that mention my state (we're bored here in Ohio, okay?!). Jimmy and Christy are full characters, and the split narrative is effective and, I believe, necessary to feel and understand their complexities as separate characters.
Rating: 3
Summary: Ash Wednesday
Comment: It is always intriguing to see talented artists dabble in other artforms that they generally are not associated with.
Ethan Hawke is an author who seems to be on the verge of writing something with extreme talent and precision, but yet, he falls. He's good, but he's not great. The potential is definitely there, and reading "The Hottest State" and then this, one can see the progression upwards, the more unification of story, character, and theme.
I find it to be somewhat incredible that he can capture the mindset of a young man and a young woman on a life changing road trip so passionately. His vivid imagery, his understanding of both genders seems almost uncanny; his understanding of the viewer, the one who watches all the action as opposed to acting is wonderful.
Hawke has the ability to write well, and he does write well, but I feel as if there is always something missing reading his work. He understands the craft enough in order to write something with grand substance, and I think he would be a wonderful poet; however, I feel that within the next few novels (if he continues) he will find his voice and style, and perhaps not write so angrily all the time.
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