The fourth hand:a novel

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Irving John 1942-
Published: Random House,
Publisher Address: New York
Publication Dates: c2001.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Carrier Form: xii, 316 p.: ; 25 cm.
Publication Frequency: Also issued online.
ISBN: 0375506276 (alk. paper)
9780375506277 (alk. paper)
Index Number: I712
CLC: I712.45
Call Number: I712.45/I724-5
Contents: 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.