The Fourth Hand

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Title: The Fourth Hand
Author: John Irving
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published Date: 2001
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback Pocket Book
Livros em Inglês
Literatura > Romance
ISBN 10: 0345450221
ISBN 13: 9780345450227

Synopsis
Patrick Wallingford is an obscenely good-looking television journalist whose biggest problem in the world is that women can´t stop falling in love with him (except his wife, who has fallen deeply out of love with him). While he´s on assignment in India, covering the death of a trapeze artist´s husband at the Great Ganesh Circus, Patrick´s hand is chomped off by a hungry lion. Millions of people witness this horrifying event, and Patrick becomes a worldwide object of pity (which helps him bed more women than he ever thought possible). Years later, he finds himself a candidate for a risky hand transplant operation. Enter Boston surgeon Dr. Nicholas Zajac, a brilliant hand specialist who has a penchant for hurling dog turds at unsuspecting rowers on the Charles River, and Doris Clausen, a Wisconsin widow who wants to give Patrick her husband´s hand -- for a price. What happens when these baroque worlds collide is an immensely readable tale that runs the gamut of human emotions.

Review
´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

´A rich and deeply moving taleVintage Irving´ -- Washington post

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, Americas political history and the power of foresight are all explored here -- Observer

Richly entertaining reading: part satire, part farcetheres no better or funnier reintroduction to the least known truly great American author -- FHM