Until I Find You

This is the story of the actor Jack Burns, the bastard son of Alice, atattoo-artist. Alice and Jack travel through the Baltic's port cities insearch of William Burns, Jack's absconding father and ‘ink addict'.But William, a church organist and profligate womaniser, is always onestep ahead - always departing in a wave of scandal, with a new tattoosomewhere on his body from a local ‘scratcher'. William can't befound and Jack must grow up without a father. His childhood and educationshaped by sexual experiences with older women. Later, as a young man witha beautiful face, Jack moves to Hollywood where international fame andstardom await. But with the shadow of his absent father always looming,Jack sets off again in search of the truth. An absorbing and moving bookabout obsession and loss, truth and storytelling, the signs we carry on usand inside us, and the traces we can't get rid of, Until I Find You is JohnIrving's giant tapestry of life's hopes. It is a masterpiece to comparewith Irving's great novels, and restates his position as the mostglorious, comic, moving novelist at work today.