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The Fourth Hand [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Adobe EPUB]
eBook by John Irving
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eBook Category: Mainstream
eBook 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.
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 – including The World According to Garp, A Prayer for Owen Meany, and A Widow for One Year – or his Oscar-winning screenplay of The Cider House Rules.
The Fourth Hand is 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
From the Hardcover edition.
eBook Publisher: Random House, Inc./Ballantine Books
Fictionwise Release Date: July 2010
Available eBook Formats [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Adobe EPUB - What's this?]: SECURE EREADER (RECOMMENDED) FORMAT [460 KB], SECURE ADOBE EPUB FORMAT [2.1 MB]
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EPUB ISBN: 9780307758552
Mobipocket Reader ISBN: 9780307758552
eReader ISBN: 9780307758552
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