by JohnIrving (Author)
'Imagine a young man on his way to a less-than-thirty-second event - the loss of his left hand, long before he reached middle age.' 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. 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...
Format: Paperback
Pages: 384
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Black Swan
Published: 01 Jun 2002
ISBN 10: 0552771090
ISBN 13: 9780552771092
Book Overview: A masterpiece from one of the great contemporary American writers.