{"product_id":"the-fourth-hand","title":"The Fourth Hand","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhile 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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., ISBN13:9780375506277 ISBN10:0375506276 Material Type:hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cheap Book Depot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52494871691571,"sku":"STR-NUR_UBD_H0001DYB","price":14.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0748\/5086\/1363\/files\/81Qa0thtvgL.jpg?v=1759996069","url":"https:\/\/cheapbookdepot.com\/products\/the-fourth-hand","provider":"Cheap Book Depot","version":"1.0","type":"link"}