Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

Irving, John frey50

The fourth hand a novel John Irving. - 1st ed. - New York : Random House, c2001. - 316 p. ; 25 cm.

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. A well-known Boston hand surgeon wants to perform the first hand transplant on the reporter, but the problem is there is no hand available. A married woman from Wisconsin wants to give the reporter her husband's left hand--that is, after her husband dies.

0375506276 (alk. paper)

2001018155


Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.
Donation of organs, tissues, etc.
Television journalists
Transplant surgeons
Hand--Surgery



Irv 4