The Fourth Hand

Name: The Fourth Hand
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: John Irving
ISBN: 9780747554325

John Irving

09/07/2001
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de The Fourth Hand par John Irving

Résumé

Présentation de l'éditeur While reporting from India, a journalist has his left hand eaten by a lion; millions of TV viewers witness it. In Boston a surgeon awaits the opportunity to perform the nation's first hand transplant, and a woman in Wisonsin wants to give the journalist her husband's hand - but he is still alive. Biographie de l'auteur John Irving published his first novel at the age of twenty-six. He has received awards from the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation; he was won an O. Henry Award, a National Book Award, and an Academy Award. Mr Irving is married to his literary agent, Janet Turnbull; he has three sons and one grandson. Currently, at the age of fifty-nine, he is at work on a novel and two screenplays.