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Description for The Fourth Hand
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 25. Weight in Grams: 260. Good clean copy with some shelf wear
'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...
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Black Swan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780552771092
SKU
KTJ0049776
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About John Irving
John Irving published his first novel, Setting Free the Bears, in 1968. He has been nominated for a National Book Award three times - winning once, in 1980, for the novel The World According to Garp. He also received an O. Henry Award in 1981 for the short story 'Interior Space'. In 1992, he was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. In 2000, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules - a film with seven Academy Award nominations. In 2001, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His most recent novel is Last Night in Twisted River.
Reviews for The Fourth Hand
A rich and deeply moving tale... Vintage Irving
Washington Post
A beguiling tale of love and redemption
Time Out
Peerless... Writing without a wasted second
Guardian
Articulate, clever, quirky, more than a touch profound and very funny
Mirror
Sharp and very, very funny, this is another of Irving's fiercely original meditations of life's inherent strangeness
Uncut
Irving has a literary style similar to a snowball effect: with each novel he creates symbols and develops themes to accompany those he has already accumulated. Grief, loss, abortion, amputation, sex, children, America's political history and the power of foresight are all explored here
Observer
Richly entertaining reading: part satire, part farce... there's no better - or funnier - reintroduction to the least known truly great American author
FHM
A coruscating comedy of sexual manners. In the margins of a hard-hitting satire on the modern media, Irving has produced some of the funniest bedroom scenes of recent years
Sunday Telegraph
If you are looking for something light and provocative for the beach this is a great little number
Irish Independent
an engaging, warm-hearted novel'
Scotland on Sunday
Washington Post
A beguiling tale of love and redemption
Time Out
Peerless... Writing without a wasted second
Guardian
Articulate, clever, quirky, more than a touch profound and very funny
Mirror
Sharp and very, very funny, this is another of Irving's fiercely original meditations of life's inherent strangeness
Uncut
Irving has a literary style similar to a snowball effect: with each novel he creates symbols and develops themes to accompany those he has already accumulated. Grief, loss, abortion, amputation, sex, children, America's political history and the power of foresight are all explored here
Observer
Richly entertaining reading: part satire, part farce... there's no better - or funnier - reintroduction to the least known truly great American author
FHM
A coruscating comedy of sexual manners. In the margins of a hard-hitting satire on the modern media, Irving has produced some of the funniest bedroom scenes of recent years
Sunday Telegraph
If you are looking for something light and provocative for the beach this is a great little number
Irish Independent
an engaging, warm-hearted novel'
Scotland on Sunday