'Imagine a young man on his way to a less-than-thirty-second event - the loss of his left hand, long before he reached middle age.'
While reporting a story from India, a New York television journalist has his left hand eaten by a lion; millions of TV viewers witness the accident. In Boston, a renowned hand surgeon awaits the opportunity to perform the nation's first hand transplant. A married woman in Wisconsin wants to give the one-handed reporter her husband's left hand, that is, after her husband dies. But the husband is alive, relatively young, and healthy...
| ISBN: | 9780552771092 |
| Publication date: | 1st June 2002 |
| Author: | John Irving |
| Publisher: | Black Swan an imprint of Transworld |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 380 pages |
| Genres: |
Humorous Fiction Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
'Imagine a young man on his way to a less-than-thirty-second event - the loss of his left hand, long before he reached middle age.'
While reporting a story from India, a New York television journalist has his left hand eaten by a lion; millions of TV viewers witness the accident. In Boston, a renowned hand surgeon awaits the opportunity to perform the nation's first hand transplant. A married woman in Wisconsin wants to give the one-handed reporter her husband's left hand, that is, after her husband dies. But the husband is alive, relatively young, and healthy...
The Fourth Hand features in the following genres: Humorous Fiction, Modern and Contemporary Fiction
The Fourth Hand is available in Paperback
The Fourth Hand was written by John Irving and published by Black Swan an imprint of Transworld
The Fourth Hand has 380 pages
£11.69