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The
2003 Award
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The Fourth Hand by John Irving
Nominated by:
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Publisher of Nominated Editions: Bloomsbury 0747554323 Random House 0375506276 |
| the complete A-Z listing of nominated authors. |
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ABOUT
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| 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; 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. Comedy, satire, sexual farce, The Fourth Hand explores some of the author's recurring themes of loss, grief and love as redemption, as well as looking at the power of second chances and the will to change. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| John Irving published his first novel at the age of twenty-six. He is the author of eleven other novels and a screenplay. He has received awards from the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation; he has won an O. Henry Award, a National Book Award and an Oscar. In 2001 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. |
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