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Fourth Hand by John Irving (2001, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherRandom House Publishing Group

ISBN-100375506276

ISBN-139780375506277

eBay Product ID (ePID)1840262

Product Key Features

Book TitleFourth Hand

Number of Pages336 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicPsychological, General, Medical, Literary

Publication Year2001

GenreFiction

AuthorJohn Irving

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight23.1 Oz

Item Length9.5 in

Item Width6.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition21

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Decimal813.5/4

SynopsisThe Fourth Handasks an interesting question: "How can anyone identify a dream of the future?" The answer: "Destiny is not imaginable, except in dreams or to those in love." 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; meanwhile, in the distracting aftermath of an acrimonious divorce, the surgeon is seduced by his housekeeper. 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. This is how John Irving's tenth novel begins; it seems, at first, to be a comedy, perhaps a satire, almost certainly a sexual farce. Yet, in the end,The Fourth Handis as realistic and emotionally moving as any of Mr. Irving's previous novels-includingThe World According to Garp, A Prayer for Owen Meany, andA Widow for One Year-or his Oscar-winning screenplay ofThe Cider House Rules. The Fourth Handis characteristic of John Irving's seamless storytelling and further explores some of the author's recurring themes-loss, grief, love as redemption. But this novel also breaks new ground; it offers a penetrating look at the power of second chances and the will to change.

LC Classification NumberPS3559.R8F68 2001b