Jak's review
Until I Find You
by John Irving
Jak's review
Until I Find You by John Irving
Jak's review
rating:
** spoiler alert **
Until I Find You is the rambling life story of Jack Burns and his complicated relationship with his mother Alice, whose domineering inscrutability leads them to try and chase down Jack’s runaway father around various Baltic ports. Failing to find him they settle in America and Jack is raised and educated at various privet schools before he becomes a Hollywood actor and suddenly finds that every child memory that forms the first quarter of the book are wrong as he did not have the whole picture.
Queue a complete rewrite of the first quarter as Jack, now an adult, revisits the same Baltic ports and gets the complete story which is diametrically opposed to what you’ve already read.
I tend to find Irving’s books to be hit and miss. Own Meany and Garp and out and out classics while other are merely OK and there is even the odd duffer. This pretty much falls into the duffer category. It’s 850 odd pages, slow, missing much of the humour that characterises Irving’s excellent w...more
Queue a complete rewrite of the first quarter as Jack, now an adult, revisits the same Baltic ports and gets the complete story which is diametrically opposed to what you’ve already read.
I tend to find Irving’s books to be hit and miss. Own Meany and Garp and out and out classics while other are merely OK and there is even the odd duffer. This pretty much falls into the duffer category. It’s 850 odd pages, slow, missing much of the humour that characterises Irving’s excellent w...more
