Sean McQuire, a five-year-old Liverpool boy, immigrates to Canada with his parents.
The reader is given hot and cold changes in rapid movements from comedy to tragedy..
His search for identity and a sense in life culminate in a pilgrimage to America, from New York to San Francisco and down to the Mexican border where the contacts with people become epiphanies to a possible new life.
This false sense of security breaks down.
From London, he emigrates to Germany, experiencing another new culture and some sense of stability.
This giddy journey from boy to man is a struggle to find love and acclaim.
Later, he attempts to free himself from the roots of his childhood, studying at Liverpool university and becoming a teacher in London.
Although born in England, he faces a new culture with all its problems.
He returns to his previous home in Woolton, Liverpool, at the age of 10.
Sean McQuire, a five-year-old Liverpool boy, immigrates to Canada with his parents
