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. Yet, in the end, The Fourth Hand is as realistic and emotionally moving as any of Mr. 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. 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 housekeeper. 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.
"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." 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 in love."
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