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.
Publication Year: 2003
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I think I'll make a point of it to read a John Irving novel every year. A Prayer for Owen Meany is revelatory, The World According to Garp is a delight, and The Fourth Hand is funny, thoughtful, and consistently entertaining. It's the kind of novel you discuss with your dear friends and loved ones; the kind of novel that makes you consider your own priorities and your happiness with your life's path. It's the kind of novel that makes you a better person.
Recommended for: readers of literary fiction, Packers fans, people in love.
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