Bibliograph

Until I find you, [a novel], John Irving

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Until I find you, [a novel], John Irving

Language

eng

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not applicable

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not applicable

Literary text for sound recordings

fiction

Main title

Until I find you

Oclc number

60194799

Responsibility statement

John Irving

Sub title

[a novel]

Summary

The story of the actor Jack Burns. His mother, Alice, is a Toronto tattoo artist. When Jack is four, he travels with Alice to several North Sea ports; they are trying to find Jack's missing father, William, a church organist who is addicted to being tattooed. But Alice is a mystery, and William can't be found. Even Jack's memories are subject to doubt. Jack Burns goes to schools in Canada and New England, but what shapes him are his relationships with older women. John Irving renders Jack's life as an actor in Hollywood with the same richness of detail and range of emotions he uses to describe the tattoo parlors in those North Sea ports and the reverberating music Jack heard as a child in European churches

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