The Fourth Hand Av John Irving

<p><i>''Imagine a young man on his way to a less-than-thirty-second event - the loss of his left hand, long before he reached middle age.''</i><br><br>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. 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, that is, after her husband dies. But the husband is alive, relatively young, and healthy...</p>