Description
A young actor arrives on Broadway to play Hotspur in Shakespeare’s *Henry IV* just as the collapse of his marriage leaves his personal life in ruins. Adrift amid shame, desire, drinking, and the pressures of fame, he struggles to reconcile the public performance of manhood with the private wreckage of heartbreak and fatherhood. As rehearsals draw him deeper into the world of theater, art becomes both an uncompromising mirror and a possible path toward renewal. Raw, darkly funny, and deeply intimate, this novel explores love, celebrity, failure, and the transformative power of performance.
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hardcover
Knopf
Published Feb 2, 2021
256 pages
ISBN: 9780385352383
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Details
First Published
2021
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for A Bright Ray of Darkness by Ethan Hawke.