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Book Synopsis''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.''
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...
Trade ReviewA rich and deeply moving tale... Vintage Irving * Washington Post *
A beguiling tale of love and redemption * Time Out *
Peerless... Writing without a wasted second * Guardian *
Articulate, clever, quirky, more than a touch profound and very funny * Mirror *
Sharp and very, very funny, this is another of Irving's fiercely original meditations of life's inherent strangeness * Uncut *
