The Fourth Hand
John Irving
While reporting from India, a New York television journalist has his left
hand eaten by a lion as millions of TV viewers witness it. 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 -- after he dies. But the husband is
alive, relatively young and healthy.
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