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The Fourth Hand - John IrvingJohn Irving's The Fourth Hand follows handsome TV journalist Patrick Wallingford, who loses his left hand to a lion while reporting in India, becoming a media sensation. In Boston, hand surgeon Dr. Zajac prepares for the nation's first hand transplant, while a Wisconsin woman, Doris, offers her husband Otto's hand after he dies, but demands visitation rights and intimacy with Patrick. The novel explores second chances and desire as Patrick gets the hand, falls for Doris, and they have a child, though Doris maintains an unusual, distant relationship with the transplanted hand and Patrick.
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