by John Irving · Maxi-Tusquets · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483109137
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«La cuarta mano» is the literary novel by John Irving, published by Maxi-Tusquets in paperback (348 pages, in Spanish).
Journalist Patrick Wallingford loses his left hand in a workplace accident and becomes a worldwide news story. A surgeon implants the hand of a deceased man; that strange limb, along with the pact with Doris Clausen, the donor's widow, awakens unprecedented aspects of his emotional life. Satire on fame and the media with Irving's humour.
Part of the Fábula collection from Tusquets Editores, number 218. Spanish translation of the English original «The Fourth Hand» (2001).
For adult readers of literary fiction and contemporary narrative, especially followers of John Irving's work.
John Winslow Irving is an American and Canadian novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter.
