The Fourth Hand
Synopsis
'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...Book details
- Author:
- John Irving
- ISBN:
- 9781448111909
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780552771092
- Publisher:
- Transworld
- Pages:
- N/A
- Reading age:
- Not specified
- Includes images:
- No
- Date of addition:
- 2018-08-20
- Usage restrictions:
- Copyright
- Copyright date:
- 2001
- Copyright by:
- Black Swan
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction