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Until I Find You
  • Published: 1 September 2006
  • ISBN: 9780552773126
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 960
  • RRP: $36.99

Until I Find You

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A tragic-comic classic from one of the world's greatest living writers.

'According to his mother, Jack Burns was an actor before he was an actor, but Jack's most vivid memories of childhood were those moments when he felt compelled to hold his mother's hand. He wasn't acting then.'

Jack Burns' mother, Alice, is a tattoo artist in search of the boy's father, a virtuoso organist named William who has fled America to Europe. To fund her journey, she plies her trade in the seaports of the Baltic coast. But her four-year-old son's errant father can't be found, and soon even Jack's memories of that perplexing time are called into question. It is only when he becomes a Hollywood actor in later life that what he has experienced in the past comes into telling play in his present......
  • Published: 1 September 2006
  • ISBN: 9780552773126
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 960
  • RRP: $36.99
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About the author

John Irving

John Irving published his first novel, Setting Free the Bears, in 1968. He has been nominated for a National Book Award three times – winning once, in 1980, for the novel The World According to Garp. He also received an O. Henry Award, in 1981, for the short story ‘Interior Space’. In 1992, he was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. In 2000, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules – a film with seven Academy Award nominations. In 2001, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. For more information about the author, please visit www.john-irving.com
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Praise for Until I Find You

Irving's popularity is not too difficult to understand. His world really is the world according to everyone

Time

John Irving has been compared to Kurt Vonnegut and J.D. Salinger, but is arguably more inventive than either. Wry, laconic, he sketches his characters with an economy that springs from a feeling for words and a mastery of his craft

The Times

Irving writes with a lapidary directness that is unsurpassed by any living writer

Sunday Telegraph

It is very satisfying to read a book that is hard to put down, and if this were a more valued criterion, Irving would no doubt by now have received the official accolades he deserves

Financial Times

A premier storyteller, master of the tragiocomic and among the first rank of contemporary novelists

Los Angeles Times

Irving is peerless at presenting action, writing without a wasted second

Guardian

Vivid, eccentric, memorable

Independent

Immensely moving and shot through with wit, humour and sadness, this book is addictive

Red