This is the story of the actor Jack Burns, the bastard son of the Alice, a tattoo- artist. Alice and Jack travel through the Baltic’s port cities in search of William Burns, Jack’s absconding father and ‘ink addict’. But William, a church organist and profligate womanizer, is always one step ahead- always departing in a wave of scandal, with a new tattoo somewhere on his body from a local ‘scratcher’.
As absorbing and moving book about obsession and loss, truth and storytelling, the signs we carry on us and inside us, Until I Find You is John Irving’s against tapestry of life’s hopes. It is masterpiece to compare with Irving’s great novels, and restates his position as the most glorious, comic, moving novelist at work today.
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