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A Bright Ray of Darkness by Ethan Hawke
3.0

I struggled to get into it at first but after about 50 pages, I was into the story and I felt like I knew who the main character was. I could so vividly imagine the theatre and the main characters hotel room, and I felt like the writing was very poetic. Basically follows an actor who has cheated on his rockstar wife which ultimately leads to the complete breakdown of his marriage. He throws himself into his play but seems to punish himself along the way in multiple ways. Some very spicy scenes and a fair few monologues which became a bit wafflely towards the end but in terms of the story, I liked the exploration of a 'failed' 40-something man and the life of an actor.