The Hottest StateThe Hottest State
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Book, 1997
Current format, Book, 1997, 1st Vintage Contemporaries ed, No Longer Available.Book, 1997
Current format, Book, 1997, 1st Vintage Contemporaries ed, No Longer Available. Offered in 0 more formatsWhen William meets Sarah at a bar appropriately called the Bitter End, he is a few months short of his twenty-first birthday and about to act in his first movie. He is so used to getting what he wants that he has never been able to care too deeply for anyone. But all of that is about to change. And it is Sarah--bold and shy, seductive and skittish--who will become William's undoing and his salvation.
William's affair with Sarah will take him from a tenement on the Lower East Side to a hotel room in Paris, from a flip proposal of marriage to the extremities of outraged need and the wisdom that comes only to true survivors. Anyone who reads The Hottest State will encounter a writer who can charm, dazzle, and break the heart in a single paragraph.
When William meets Sarah at a bar appropriately called the Bitter End, he is a few months short of his twenty-first birthday and about to act in his first movie. He is so used to getting what he wants that he has never been able to care too deeply for anyone. But all of that is about to change. And it is Sarah - bold and shy, seductive and skittish - who will become William's undoing and his salvation.
William's affair with Sarah will take him from a tenement on the Lower East Side to a hotel room in Paris, from a flip proposal of marriage to the extremities of outraged need and the wisdom that comes only to true survivors.
Encountering Sarah in a bar called the Bitter End, William, a spoiled young actor, falls deeply in love for the first time and embarks on an affair that takes him from a Lower East Side tenement to Paris and to a love and loss that transforms his life. A first novel. Reissue. (A ThinkFilm/IFC Films movie, written & directed by Ethan Hawke, releasing August 2007, starring Mark Webber, Jesse Harris, Laura Linney, Ethan Hawke, & Michelle Williams) (General Fiction)
William, an aspiring twenty-year-old actor, moves to New York to pursue his career, only to begin an obsessive love affair that ends in heartbreak
William's affair with Sarah will take him from a tenement on the Lower East Side to a hotel room in Paris, from a flip proposal of marriage to the extremities of outraged need and the wisdom that comes only to true survivors. Anyone who reads The Hottest State will encounter a writer who can charm, dazzle, and break the heart in a single paragraph.
When William meets Sarah at a bar appropriately called the Bitter End, he is a few months short of his twenty-first birthday and about to act in his first movie. He is so used to getting what he wants that he has never been able to care too deeply for anyone. But all of that is about to change. And it is Sarah - bold and shy, seductive and skittish - who will become William's undoing and his salvation.
William's affair with Sarah will take him from a tenement on the Lower East Side to a hotel room in Paris, from a flip proposal of marriage to the extremities of outraged need and the wisdom that comes only to true survivors.
Encountering Sarah in a bar called the Bitter End, William, a spoiled young actor, falls deeply in love for the first time and embarks on an affair that takes him from a Lower East Side tenement to Paris and to a love and loss that transforms his life. A first novel. Reissue. (A ThinkFilm/IFC Films movie, written & directed by Ethan Hawke, releasing August 2007, starring Mark Webber, Jesse Harris, Laura Linney, Ethan Hawke, & Michelle Williams) (General Fiction)
William, an aspiring twenty-year-old actor, moves to New York to pursue his career, only to begin an obsessive love affair that ends in heartbreak
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