Fourth Hand
EAN/UPC/ISBN Code
9780552771092
Brand
Black Swan
Author
John Irving
Producer
Transworld Publishers
Year of production
2002
"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...