The Fourth Hand

Name: The Fourth Hand
Rating: 3.2 (5 reviews)
Author: Unknown Author
ISBN: 9780345463159

by Unknown Author

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(5 ratings)

368 pages2003FawcettISBN 9780345463159

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Originally published: New York : Random House, 2001. 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. A well-known Boston hand surgeon wants to perform the first hand transplant on the reporter, but the problem is there is no hand available. A married woman from Wisconsin wants to give the reporter her husband's left hand--that is, after her husband dies.

Publication Details

Publisher: Fawcett
Published: 2003
Pages: 368
ISBN: 9780345463159

About Unknown Author

John Irving was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1942. His first novel, Setting Free the Bears, was published in 1968, when he was twenty-six. He competed as a wrestler for twenty years, and coached wrestling until he was forty-seven. Mr. Irving has been nominated for a National Book Award three times—winning once, in 1980, for his novel The World According to Garp. He received an O. Henry Award in 1981 for his short story “Interior Space.” In 2000, Mr. Irving won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules. In 2013, he won a Lambda Literary Award for his novel In One Person. An international writer—his novels have been translated into more than thirty-five languages—John Irving lives in Toronto. His all-time best-selling novel, in every language, is A Prayer for Owen Meany. ([source][1]) [1]: http://john-irving.com/john-irving-bio/