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The fourth hand : a novel / John Irving.

by Irving, John, 1942-

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Alfred A. Knopf Canada, c2001.

Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Fiction.

Hand -- Physiology -- Fiction.

Television journalists -- Fiction.

Surgeons -- Fiction.

xii, 316 p. ; 25 cm.

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 Hand is as realistic and emotionally moving as any of Mr. Irving's previous novels...

Psychological fiction.

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