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Until I find you : a novel
- Title
- Until I find you : a novel / John Irving.
- Author
- Irving, John, 1942-
- Publication
- New York : Random House, c2005.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 05-10094 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xiii, 824 p.; 25 cm.
- 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.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Psychological fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Contents
- I: The North Sea. In the care of churchgoers and old girls ; Saved by the littlest soldier ; Rescued by a Swedish accountant ; No luck in Norway ; Failure in Finland ; God's holy noise ; Also not on their itinerary -- II: The sea of girls. Safe among the girls ; Not old enough ; His audience of one ; His father inside him ; Not just another rose of Jericho ; Not your usual mail-order bride ; Mrs. Machado ; Friends for life -- III: Lucky. Frost heaves ; Michele Maher, and others ; Enter Claudia: exit Mrs. McQuat ; Claudia, who would haunt him ; Two Canadians in the City of Angels ; Two candles, burning ; Money shots -- IV: Sleeping in the needles. Billy Rainbow ; The button trick ; Daughter Alice goes home ; A faithless boy ; The commandant's daughter; her little brother ; The wrong tattoo ; The truth ; The deal -- V: Dr. García. Therapy ; Straining to see ; Signs of trouble ; Halifax ; Forgettable ; Claudia's ghost ; Edinburgh ; Zurich ; The musician.
- Call Number
- JFE 05-10094
- ISBN
- 1400063833
- LCCN
- 2005042894
- OCLC
- 58431902
- Author
- Irving, John, 1942-
- Title
- Until I find you : a novel / John Irving.
- Imprint
- New York : Random House, c2005.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 05-10094