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082	0		_aFIC IRV
100	1		_aIrving, John, 1942-
245	1	4	_aThe fourth hand _c/ John Irving
260			_aNew York _b: Random House _c, 2002, c2001.
300			_axii, 316 p. _c; 24 cm.
520			_aThe Fourth Handasks 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.
650		4	_aDonation of organs, tissues, etc. _v--Fiction
650		4	_aTransplant surgeons _v--Fiction
650		4	_aTelevision journalists _v--Fiction
650		4	_aHand _x--Surgery _v--Fiction
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