The fourth hand
Subtitle: a novel
By: John Irving.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
Subjects: Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Fiction.; Donation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Fiction.; Television journalists -- Fiction.; Transplant surgeons -- Fiction.; Hand -- Surgery -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "The Fourth Hand asks 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."--BOOK JACKET.