The fourth hand
'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 hu…
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- Full title :The fourth hand / John Irving.
Summary
'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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- Publication Date:2002.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Black Swan
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2002.
The Physical Object
- Description:380 pages ; : 18 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0552149047, 9780552149044, 0552771090, 9780552771092
- oclc:ocm53918131
- LC Classification:PS3559.R8
- Dewey Decimal:813.54
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