'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...
ISBN: | 9780552771092 |
Publication date: | 1st June 2002 |
Author: | John Irving |
Publisher: | Black Swan an imprint of Transworld |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 380 pages |
Genres: |
Humorous Fiction Modern and Contemporary Fiction |