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The fourth hand / John Irving.

Irving, John, 1942- (author.).

Summary:

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.

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  • ISBN: 9780307366498 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 0307366499 (electronic bk.)
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource.
  • Publisher: [Toronto] : Vintage Canada, 2010.

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Subject: Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. > Fiction.
Donation of organs, tissues, etc. > Fiction.
Television journalists > Fiction.
Transplant surgeons > Fiction.
Hand > Surgery > Fiction.
Love stories.
Psychological fiction.
Genre: Electronic books.

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