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"Until I Find You: Volume 1" by John Irving Length: 17 hours and 31 min. ISBN:   New York Times Best Seller Listen to an excerpt with: Windows Media Player Real Player |
Until I Find You is the story of the actor Jack Burns; his life, loves, celebrity, and astonishing search for the truth about his parents.
When he is four-years-old, Jack travels with his mother Alice, a tattoo artist, 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 is educated at schools in Canada and New England, but he is shaped by his relationships with older women. Mr. 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.
Until I Find You is suffused with overwhelming sadness and deception; it is also a robust and comic novel, certain to be compared to Mr. Irving’s most ambitious and moving work.
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