{"product_id":"the-fourth-hand-a-novel","title":"The Fourth Hand A Novel","description":"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.\" \u003cbr\u003eWhile 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; meanwhile, in the distracting aftermath of an acrimonious divorce, the surgeon is seduced by his housekeeper. 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. \u003cbr\u003eThis is how John Irving's tenth novel begins; it seems, at first, to be a comedy, perhaps a satire, almost certainly a sexual farce. Yet, in the end, The Fourth Hand is as realistic and emotionally moving as any of Mr. 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. \u003cbr\u003eThe Fourth Hand is characteristic of John Irving's seamless storytelling and further explores some of the author's recurring themes-loss, grief, love as redemption. But this novel also breaks new ground; it offers a penetrating look at the power of second chances and the will to change.","brand":"Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43097646268452,"sku":null,"price":13.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0743\/8657\/1300\/files\/18744183482321.jpg?v=1766502679","url":"https:\/\/volumebookshop.com\/products\/the-fourth-hand-a-novel","provider":"Volume Bookshop \u0026 Studio, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}