ENGLISH

Fourth Hand

By John Irving

Book information

Publisher
BLACK SWAN
Year
2002
ISBN
0552771090, 9780552771092
Open Library ID
OL7815939M
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
606 kB (620552 bytes)
Pages
261\0
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-03-09 12:00:00

Description

'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...

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