I felt that he seemed to lose the interesting off the wall character that the book began with, in the second half. " I just couldn't empathise or even sympathise with the character at all. " Wavered between creative/unique and a sheer sex romp. Overall Performance: Narration Rating: Story Rating:.
It is one man's journey to find a full, loving, wonderful life." If you don't know what I'm talking about, check out this lovely tale of a man whose empty life is filled only after he suffers a very public loss. "John Irving is the king of warm, tragic, darkly humorous stories.
Louis Post-Dispatch “A beautiful story about the redemptive power of love.” - The Denver Post mastery of characterization is unequaled in American novelists of the day.” - St. Irving’s most compassionate and redemptive to date. The delighted reader is powerless to look away.” - Chicago Sun-Times “ thoroughly satisfying literary experience. The authoritative control of Irving’s storytelling has never been more impressive. Wallingford gets more than a transplanted hand he begins to find his soul.” - USA Today “A riveting entertainment and certainly one of the funniest novels of the year. From what at first seems bizarre, Irving builds the best kind of love story: an improbable one. Irving’s novels are perceptive and precise reflections of the world around us.” - The Washington Post Book World “A blend of sexual farce, journalistic satire, and tender love story. Vintage Irving: a story of two very disparate people, and the strange and unexpected ways we grow. Praise for The Fourth Hand “A rich and deeply moving tale. 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.
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