![]() ![]() Unfortunately, "there were some strings attached to the donor hand" in the shape of its former owner's widow, Mrs Clausen from Green Bay, Wisconsin. Zajac, a hand surgeon with Schatzman, Gingeleskie, Mengerink & Associates", soon seduces him with the offer of a hand transplant. He was a magnet to women of all ages and types even lying unconscious, he was a danger to the female sexīereft of his left hand, Wallingford ("the lion guy") finds that both his career and his already active sex life blossom. As friends and former lovers watch the disappearance of the reporter's hand, it becomes clear that: Patrick Wallingford initiated nothing, yet he inspired sexual unrest and unnatural longing-even as he was caught in the act of feeding a lion his left hand. ![]() While filing a report from a circus in India, Wallingford's left hand is eaten by a lion. The novel begins with one of Irving's typically surreal scenarios: "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." The unfortunate young man is the "irrefutably good-looking" television journalist Patrick Wallingford. His search to become whole again soon makes him realise that it takes more than a new limb to find fulfilment. ![]() The Fourth Hand is one of John Irving's finest novels to date. ![]()
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