The fourth hand
By: John Irving
Edition: 1st Ballantine Books mass market ed.
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780345463159
Subjects: Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Fiction.; Donation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Fiction.; Television journalists -- Fiction.; Transplant surgeons -- Fiction.; Hand -- Surgery -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Notes: 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.