He meant not just the lost father but the sexual abuse that Jack Burns suffers as a boy. Irving believed he had made peace with his own abuse—"I was 11 when a very nice woman in her 20s had sex with me," he says calmly. But writing the book revived long-buried pain.
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Jul 31, 2005 · John Irving warns his readers from the start that his latest novel, "Until I Find You," is going to be disturbing.
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Jun 30, 2005 · Award-winning US writer John Irving's new novel deals, in part, with a secret he has harboured for many years - his sexual abuse at the ...
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Jun 28, 2005 · Article on author John Irving, 53, whose latest novel, Until I Find You, which is due out in July, deals fictionally with personal ...
Until I Find You (2005) is the 11th published novel by John Irving. The novel was originally written in first person and only changed 10 months before ...
Jun 28, 2005 · NEW YORK, June 28 (AFP) - Award-winning US writer John Irving's new novel deals, in part, with a secret he has harboured for many years -- his ...
Aug 5, 2005 · John Irving's discoveries about the father who abandoned him have eerie resonances with the plot of his new book.
The story behind John Irving's new novel sounds an awful lot like a John Irving novel. Like The World According to Garp, the unconventional 1978 breakout ...
Nov 10, 2019 · John Irving is one of many authors whom I read way too young. In middle school, teachers often told me that I read on a college level.