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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 Wisconsin wants to give the journalist her husband's hand - but he is still alive.
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The fourth hand, John Irving
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- Released
- 2001
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- Title
- The fourth hand
- Language
- English
- Authors
- John Irving
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- Released
- 2001
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 326
- ISBN10
- 0747554323
- ISBN13
- 9780747554325
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Love, Contemporary Fiction, USA, American Literature, Literary Fiction, Marriage, New York, India, Satire, Boston, Americans, Reporters, Transplantation
- First published
- 2001
- Original title
- The Fourth Hand
- Rating
- 3.35 out of 5
- Description
- 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 Wisconsin wants to give the journalist her husband's hand - but he is still alive.