{"product_id":"the-fourth-hand-9780345463159","title":"The Fourth Hand","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Fourth Hand\u003c\/strong\u003e by Irving, John. Mass Market Paperback edition. ISBN: 9780345463159.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\"\n\nWhile 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.\n\nThis 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 – including The World According to Garp, A Prayer for Owen Meany, and A Widow for One Year – or his Oscar-winning screenplay of The Cider House Rules.\n\nThe Fourth Hand is characteristic of John Irving’s seamless storytelling and further explores some of the author’s recurring themes – loss, grief, love as redemption. But this novel also breaks new ground; it offers a penetrating look at the power of second chances and the will to change.\n\nFrom the Trade Paperback edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Fawcett","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67616027738165,"sku":"ByrdShop_0345463153","price":63.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780345463159_ed82d488-f99a-41f9-b10f-f3e3fc7745ce.jpg?v=1792212899","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-fourth-hand-9780345463159","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}