![]() ![]() Wallingford gets more than a transplanted hand he begins to find his soul.” - USA Today From what at first seems bizarre, Irving builds the best kind of love story: an improbable one. “A blend of sexual farce, journalistic satire, and tender love story. Irving’s novels are perceptive and precise reflections of the world around us.” - The Washington Post Book World ![]() Vintage Irving: a story of two very disparate people, and the strange and unexpected ways we grow. ![]() But what if the donor’s widow demands visitation rights with the hand? In answering this unexpected question, John Irving has written a novel that is by turns brilliantly comic and emotionally moving, offering a penetrating look at the power of second chances and the will to change. In Boston, a renowned surgeon eagerly awaits the opportunity to perform the nation’s first hand transplant. While reporting a story from India, New York journalist Patrick Wallingford inadvertently becomes his own headline when his left hand is eaten by a lion. ![]()
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