| Title:
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THE FOURTH HAND
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| By: |
John Irving |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0552771090 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780552771092 |
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| Publisher: |
TRANSWORLD PUBLISHERS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
1 June, 2002 |
| Pages: |
384 |
| Description: |
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. |
| Synopsis: |
'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... |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Black Swan |
| Returns: |
Returnable |