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The Fourth Hand by John Irving (2001, Compact Disc, Unabridged edition)
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Features
- Unabridged
- ISBN
- 9780375419119
- Publication Year
- 2001
- Format
- Compact Disc
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Fourth Hand
- Publisher
- Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- General
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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 change.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Audio Publishing Group
ISBN-10
037541911x
ISBN-13
9780375419119
eBay Product ID (ePID)
27038300826
Product Key Features
Book Title
Fourth Hand
Format
Compact Disc
Language
English
Topic
General
Publication Year
2001
Genre
Fiction
Dimensions
Item Length
4.9in.
Item Height
1.9in.
Item Width
5.7in.
Item Weight
15.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Edition Description
Unabridged Edition
Reviews
"A RICH AND DEEPLY MOVING TALE . . . Vintage Irving: a story of two very disparate people, and the strange and unexpected ways we grow . . . Irving's novels are perceptive and precise reflections of the world around us." The Washington Post Book World "A BLEND OF SEXUAL FARCE, JOURNALISTIC SATIRE, AND TENDER LOVE STORY . . . From what at first seems bizarre, Irving builds the best kind of love story: an improbable one. Wallingford gets more than a transplanted h∧ he begins to find his soul." USA Today "A RIVETING ENTERTAINMENT AND CERTAINLY ONE OF THE FUNNIEST NOVELS OF THE YEAR. The authoritative control of Irving's storytelling has never been more impressive. . . . The delighted reader is powerless to look away." Chicago Sun-Times "[A] THOROUGHLY SATISFYING LITERARY EXPERIENCE . . . Irving's most compassionate and redemptive [novel] to date . . . [His] mastery of characterization is unequaled in American novelists of the day." St. Louis Post Dispatch "A BEAUTIFUL STORY ABOUT THE REDEMPTIVE POWER OF LOVE." The Denver Post From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Trade
Dewey Decimal
813.5/4
Dewey Edition
21
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