# The Fourth Hand

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- Book: [The Fourth Hand](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-irving/the-fourth-hand) ([The Fourth Hand.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-irving/the-fourth-hand.md))
- Authors: [John Irving](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-irving)
- Publisher: Black Swan
- ISBN: 978-05-5277-109-2
- Pages: 384
- Published: 2011-01-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## 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...