![]() This is how John's Irving tenth novel begins it seems, at first, to be a comedy, perhaps a satire, almost certainly a sexual farce. But the husband is alive, relatively young and healthy. A married woman in Wisconsin wants to give the one-handed reporter her husband's left hand - that is, after her husband dies. ![]() 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 house-keeper. 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. ![]() 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 who love." ![]()
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