Until I Find You - Rilegato

Irving, John

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ISBN 10: 0375435271 ISBN 13: 9780375435270

Casa editrice: Random House Large Print, 2005

Riassunto

Chronicles the life and times of actor Jack Burns, whose unique bond with his mother, Alice, a Toronto tattoo artist, and their search for his missing father, William, a church organist with an addiction to being tattooed, shapes his relationships with women and his Hollywood career. Simultaneous.

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Recensione:

“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

L'autore:

John Irving was born in New Hampshire. He studied at universities in America and Europe and published his first novel, Setting Free the Bears, at the age of twenty-six. The World According to Garp, published in 1978 to phenomenal acclaim, firmly established him as one of the most inventive and talented novelists in America.

During the 1980s John Irving wrote a series of absorbing and celebrated books: The Hotel New Hampshire, The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany. In these novels his originality and striking vision came brilliantly to the fore, along with his trademark subjects – as wide-ranging as feminism, religion, wrestling, sex and New England life.

More recent novels include the complex bestseller A Son of the Circus, the dark and funny novel A Widow for One Year and The Fourth Hand, a black comedy that was another popular success.

Several of John Irving’s novels have been made into films, and in 2000 he was awarded an Oscar for the screenplay for The Cider House Rules. He described the difficult, decade-long journey from page to screen in My Movie Business. He is also the author of Trying to Save Piggy Sneed and The Imaginary Girlfriend, memoirs of writing and wrestling.

In 1992, John Irving was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. In 2001, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Vermont and Toronto.
Until I Find You is John Irving’s eleventh novel.

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• Editore: Random House Large Print
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0375435271
• ISBN 13: 9780375435270
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 1104