The Fourth Hand
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Transworld Publishers Ltd
Published:1st Jun '02
Should be back in stock very soon
A masterpiece from one of the great contemporary American writers.
'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;
'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...
A rich and deeply moving tale... Vintage Irving * Washington Post *
A beguiling tale of love and redemption * Time Out *
Peerless... Writing without a wasted second * Guardian *
Articulate, clever, quirky, more than a touch profound and very funny * Mirror *
Sharp and very, very funny, this is another of Irving's fiercely original meditations of life's inherent strangeness * Uncut *
Irving has a literary style similar to a snowball effect: with each novel he creates symbols and develops themes to accompany those he has already accumulated. Grief, loss, abortion, amputation, sex, children, America's political history and the power of foresight are all explored here * Observer *
Richly entertaining reading: part satire, part farce... there's no better - or funnier - reintroduction to the least known truly great American author * FHM *
A coruscating comedy of sexual manners. In the margins of a hard-hitting satire on the modern media, Irving has produced some of the funniest bedroom scenes of recent years * Sunday Telegraph *
If you are looking for something light and provocative for the beach this is a great little number * Irish Independent *
an engaging, warm-hearted novel' * Scotland on Sunday *
ISBN: 9780552771092
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 24mm
Weight: 269g
384 pages