# The Fourth Hand

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- Authors: [John Irving](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-irving)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2011-01-06
- Genres: Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general

## Description

'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...

## Editions

### The Fourth Hand

- Publisher: Transworld Digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-4811-190-9
- Published: 2012-05-10
- Language: en_GB

### The Fourth Hand

- Publisher: Black Swan
- ISBN: 978-05-5277-109-2
- Pages: 384
- Published: 2011-01-06
- Language: en_GB

### The Fourth Hand

- Publisher: Ballantine Books
- ISBN: 978-03-4544-934-4
- Pages: 352
- Published: 2002-05-14
- Language: en_US

## This book in other languages

- [Čtvrtá ruka](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-irving/cs/ctvrta-ruka) (cs_CZ)
- [La cuarta mano](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-irving/es/la-cuarta-mano) (es_CO)
- [Czwarta ręka](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-irving/pl/czwarta-reka) (pl_PL)