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The 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. From the Trade Paperback edition.
| ISBN-13 | 9780676973921 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 0676973922 |
| List Price | $24.95 |
| Format | Hardcover |
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| Pages | 336 pages |
| Publisher | Knopf Canada |
| Published On | 2001-07-01 |
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