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Description for The Fourth Hand
hardcover. Clean copy in dust wrapper. DW showing light shelf wear. Pages age toned but remains a very good copy
While reporting from India, a journalist has his left hand eaten by a lion; millions of TV viewers witness it. In Boston a surgeon awaits the opportunity to perform the nation's first hand transplant, and a woman in Wisonsin wants to give the journalist her husband's hand - but he is still alive.
While reporting from India, a journalist has his left hand eaten by a lion; millions of TV viewers witness it. In Boston a surgeon awaits the opportunity to perform the nation's first hand transplant, and a woman in Wisonsin wants to give the journalist her husband's hand - but he is still alive.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
London : Bloomsbury
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
326
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780747554325
SKU
KMK0024193
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About John Irving
John Irving has been nominated for a National Book Award three times, winning it in 1980 for The World According to Garp. In 1992, Mr. Irving was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. In 2000, he won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules - a film with seven Academy Award nominations. Last Night in Twisted River is his twelfth novel.
Reviews for The Fourth Hand
Irving's latest novel kicks off with an extraordinary incident. Sent to cover a colourful "human interest" story in a circus in Gujarat, its protagonist - a New York TV journalist - becomes the story himself when he is mauled by a lion which takes his hand off at the wrist. The whole grisly thing is caught on camera and shown around the world. But that's not all. A viewer in Wisconsin is moved to "donate" her husband's hand as a replacement, in some pioneering surgery, The only problem being that her husband is still very much alive and well... Irving's book mixes satire, black comedy, sexual picaresque (the journalist in question is an inveterate womaniser) with something else again. The mysterious painkiller which he is given in India opens unexpected vistas in the mind of the unfortunate main character. It's an inventive, funny, sexy book which also gets serious about love, loss and fate.