{"product_id":"the-fourth-hand-1","title":"The Fourth Hand","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.\"\n\nWhile 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.\n\nThis 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.\n\nThe 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.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0375506276\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.0375506276.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Irving, John\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Book has little sign of wear or use  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43434183983165,"sku":"BVV.0375506276.VG","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/0375506276-0.jpg?v=1786052384","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/the-fourth-hand-1","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}