Book description
'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...
John Irving published his first novel, Setting Free the Bears, in
1968. He has been nominated for a National Book Award three times -
winning once, in 1980, for the novel The World According to Garp. He
also received an O. Henry Award in 1981 for the short story 'Interior
Space'. In 1992, he was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of
Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. In 2000, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted
Screenplay for The Cider House Rules - a film with seven Academy Award
nominations. In 2001, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and
Letters. His most recent novel is Last Night in Twisted River.
