Until I Find You
A Novel
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Until I Find You
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When he is four years old, Jack travels with his mother Alice, a tattoo artist, to several North Sea ports in search of his father, William Burns. From Copenhagen to Amsterdam, William, a brilliant church organist and profligate womanizer, is always a step ahead – has always just departed in a wave of scandal, with a new tattoo somewhere on his body from a local master or “scratcher.”
Alice and Jack abandon their quest, and Jack is educated at schools in Canada and New England – including, tellingly, a girls’ school in Toronto. His real education consists of his relationships with older women – from Emma Oastler, who initiates him into erotic life, to the girls of St. Hilda’s, with whom he first appears on stage, to the abusive Mrs. Machado, whom he first meets when sent to learn wrestling at a local gym.
Too much happens in this expansive, eventful novel to possibly summarize it all. Emma and Jack move to Los Angeles, where Emma becomes a successful novelist and Jack a promising actor. A host of eccentric minor characters memorably come and go, including Jack’s hilariously confused teacher the Wurtz; Michelle Maher, the girlfriend he will never forget; and a precocious child Jack finds in the back of an Audi in a restaurant parking lot. We learn about tattoo addiction and movie cross-dressing, “sleeping in the needles” and the cure for cauliflower ears. And John Irving renders his protagonist’s unusual rise through Hollywood with the same vivid detail and range of emotions he gives to the organ music Jack hears as a child in European churches. This is an absorbing and moving book about obsession and loss, truth and storytelling, the signs we carry on us and inside us, the traces we can’t get rid of.
Jack has always lived in the shadow of his absent father. But as he grows older – and when his mother dies – he starts to doubt the portrait of his father’s character she painted for him when he was a child. This is the cue for a second journey around Europe in search of his father, from Edinburgh to Switzerland, towards a conclusion of great emotional force.
A melancholy tale of deception, Until I Find You is also a swaggering comic novel, a giant tapestry of life’s hopes. It is a masterpiece to compare with John Irving’s great novels, and restates the author’s claim to be considered the most glorious, comic, moving novelist at work today.©2005 John Irving; (P)2005 Random House, Inc. Random House Audio, a division of Random House, Inc.
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Kritikerstimmen
“As ever, Irving is at his best with the family relationships he creates. They are simultaneously touching and infuriating. It is with these relationships that Irving firmly grasps universal truths and puts a chokehold on his readers…. Irving’s descriptions are distressing to read, but they force the reader to relate to the characters in a way they would not in most works of fiction.”
–Calgary Herald
“Bittersweet . . . moving.”
–People
“Until I Find You . . . cuts closer to the bone than any of [Irving’s] previous works.”
–Ottawa Citizen
Praise for John Irving:
John Irving has received awards from the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation; he has won an O. Henry Award, a National Book Award and an Oscar.
“Irving’s novels are perceptive and precise reflections of the world around us.”
—The Washington Post Book World
“John Irving is one of the very finest writers alive today.”
—The Associated Press
“A serious artist of remarkable powers.”
—Chicago Sun-Times
“Irving’s popularity is not hard to understand. His world is really the world according to nearly everyone.”
—Time
“A premier storyteller, master of the tragicomic and among the first rank of contemporary novelists.”
—Los Angeles Times Book Review
“[Irving’s] instincts are so basically sound, his talent for storytelling so bright and strong that he gets down to the truth of his time.
—The New York Times Book Review
“John Irving is a writer of prodigious talent.”
—Calgary Herald
“John Irving is devoted to his people and his plots in a way that makes him unique among the most popular and widely read of the living American novelists. He has become his generation’s Dickens.”
—NOW Magazine
“He is among the very best storytellers at work today. At the base of Irving’s own moral concerns is a rare and lasting regard for human kindness.”
—The Philadelphia Inquirer
Praise for The Fourth Hand:
“A rich and deeply moving tale. . .Vintage Irving: A story of two very disparate people, and the strange ways we grow. . . . Irving’s novels are perceptive and precise reflections of the world around us.”
—The Washington Post Book World
“Using comedy, satiric social commentary and his adroit ability to tell a good yarn, Irving proffers a sweet love story with the very serious underlying theme of human transformation.”
—Ottawa Citizen
“John Irving is one of the very finest writers alive today.”
—The Associated Press
–Calgary Herald
“Bittersweet . . . moving.”
–People
“Until I Find You . . . cuts closer to the bone than any of [Irving’s] previous works.”
–Ottawa Citizen
Praise for John Irving:
John Irving has received awards from the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation; he has won an O. Henry Award, a National Book Award and an Oscar.
“Irving’s novels are perceptive and precise reflections of the world around us.”
—The Washington Post Book World
“John Irving is one of the very finest writers alive today.”
—The Associated Press
“A serious artist of remarkable powers.”
—Chicago Sun-Times
“Irving’s popularity is not hard to understand. His world is really the world according to nearly everyone.”
—Time
“A premier storyteller, master of the tragicomic and among the first rank of contemporary novelists.”
—Los Angeles Times Book Review
“[Irving’s] instincts are so basically sound, his talent for storytelling so bright and strong that he gets down to the truth of his time.
—The New York Times Book Review
“John Irving is a writer of prodigious talent.”
—Calgary Herald
“John Irving is devoted to his people and his plots in a way that makes him unique among the most popular and widely read of the living American novelists. He has become his generation’s Dickens.”
—NOW Magazine
“He is among the very best storytellers at work today. At the base of Irving’s own moral concerns is a rare and lasting regard for human kindness.”
—The Philadelphia Inquirer
Praise for The Fourth Hand:
“A rich and deeply moving tale. . .Vintage Irving: A story of two very disparate people, and the strange ways we grow. . . . Irving’s novels are perceptive and precise reflections of the world around us.”
—The Washington Post Book World
“Using comedy, satiric social commentary and his adroit ability to tell a good yarn, Irving proffers a sweet love story with the very serious underlying theme of human transformation.”
—Ottawa Citizen
“John Irving is one of the very finest writers alive today.”
—The Associated Press
Could have done with some coaching by a native speaker.
German for beginners
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I love John Irving and every inch of this story
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Während der Roman viele der Themen , die bereits in anderen Werken des Autors behandelt wurden, versucht John Irving neue Wege zu beschreiten, um die Fehlbarkeit des Gedächtnisses, insbesondere die Erinnerungen von Kindern (in diesem Fall die Erinnerungen an den Protagonisten Jack Burns), zu erfassen. Echt gut gelingen tut das leider nicht
Die erste Hälfte der Erzählung folgt einem jungen kanadischen Schauspieler namens Jack Burns in seiner Jugend, als er mit seiner Mutter auf der Suche nach seinem Vater durch die Subkultur der Tattoo-Künstler reist. Wie Garp (und Irving selber) in Garp und wie er die Welt sah, findet Jack ein Talent für Ringen und eine Großfamilie, die ihn durch seine Prüfungen als junger Mann im Alter unterstützt und behindert, einschließlich seines sexuellen Erwachens und Missbrauchs als Jugendlicher.
Die zweite Hälfte der Erzählung sieht Jack auf dem Weg, die Wahrheit hinter den Missverständnissen zu entdecken, von denen sein jüngeres Selbst einst dachte, dass er sie verstanden hätte.
Das beste was man zu dieses Buch sagen kann ist das es nicht Langweilig ist. Gut ist es nicht.
Nicht so toll
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Arthur Morey is the perfect voice to tell this story and he manages to guide us through the neverending saga in an entertaining way.
In the story we accompany the young Jack Burns, who travels with his mother Alice, a very skilled tattoo artist, all over Europe to find his father William. William is an extremely talented organist, who left Alice after a short romance, before Jack was borne. The journey is eventful, but without success. Alice returns with Jack to Canada, where he grows up to become a wrestler and successful and famous actor. At a very early stage Jack becomes obsessed with sex, but he seems to be unable to build lasting relationships. To our amazement, he never tries to make love to Emma, the only girl, he is really devoted to and really loves.
So far Jack never saw his father, but all his live, he is thinking about him. When he is acting, he does it for William. Finally, at a very mature age, he sets out to search and meet him.
It is probably not Irving's best book, but it is fun to read. There are stretches, especially when he talks about medical details or specific illnesses, where less would have been more and you get tempted to skip a couple of pages or fast forward. I regard this as the only major flaw of the narrative, other than that, the story is serious enough to make you think about the essence of life, love and death, but it also offers ample opportunity for an outburst of laughter.
It is a long story, but it is worthwhile to read it.
A Quest for Love and a Lot of Sex and Tattoos
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As for the quality of the audiobook itself, it's fine, the narrator is great at enacting some of the funnier scenes, quirky characters and such. The only issue I have with it is that (as happens to be more of rule than an exception in English-spoken audiobooks), his pronunciation of German and Latin (which is abundant in the second part of the book) is absolutely horrible. Hence only 4 stars for the narrator. Otherwise, 5-star experience for me.
Last warning: if you don't like the word penis, better stay away. The book is full of it.
Story about memory, parenting, abuse and love
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