For more details, please consult the latest information provided by Royal Mail's International Incident Bulletin. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. If I read one more line about a woman’s “giant heaving breasts”, I may have thrown the book in the bonfire. Diese Geschichte war an sich sehr spannend und das Ende hat mich auch berührt, auch wenn es etwas kitschig war. Not many novels combine scenes of lying semi-conscious by a motel toilet with thoughts on the perfection of the iambic pentameter.

With two Oscar nominations for screenplays and likewise for his acting, it's obvious this was one of Ethan's more personal stories. However it could do with a better edit as the factual inaccuracies in the background are irritating: Gielgud did not play Hal opposite Olivier’s Hotspur; Peter Hall not James Hall was the artistic director of the RSC. Hawke’s narrator is a young man in torment, disgusted with himself after the collapse of his marriage, still half hoping for a reconciliation that would allow him to forgive himself and move on as he clumsily, and sometimes hilariously, tries to manage the wreckage of his personal life with whiskey and sex.Hawke’s novel is auto-fiction (I’m presuming) about a movie star who has cheated on his rockstar wife, faces the public fallout from same, is about to make his Broadway debut (in Henry IV) and is in a spiralling existential crisis entirely of his own making fuelled by drink, drugs and self-sabotage.

La rabbia e l’ardore lo sostengono, insieme a un desiderio confuso di riscatto e di rivalsa che lotta contro la tentazione di lasciarsi semplicemente andare a fondo. This recycled gossip is tiresome, but what’s most irritating about “A Bright Ray of Darkness” is that it’s really good. It is just a self-absorbed, self-pitying narrator who expects his soon-to-be ex-wife to show up and applaud his theatrical brilliance as he performs in a Shakespeare production. Najčešće sam pogrešio kad sam uzeo da čitam nekakve kvazi- ili prave autobiografije poznatih ljudi koji misle da moraju nešto da kažu o svom životu. His life is chaos--between wanting to be the best actor, but not wanting to be pompous, between wanting a divorce, but losing his ego, between loving his children, and deconstructing the relationship he had with his own father--we have a layered, complex story.A bracing meditation on fame and celebrity, and the redemptive, healing power of art; a portrait of the ravages of disappointment and divorce; a poignant consideration of the rites of fatherhood and manhood; a novel soaked in rage and sex, longing and despair; and a passionate love letter to the world of theatre, A Bright Ray of Darkness showcases Ethan Hawke's gifts as a novelist as never before.