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The Fourth Hand

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While reporting a story from India, Patrick Wallingford, a New York television journalist, has his left hand eaten by a lion. Millions of TV viewers witness the accident, and Patrick achieves instant notoriety as "the lion guy". In Boston, a renowned hand surgeon, Dr. Nicholas M. Zajac, awaits the opportunity to perform the nation’s first hand transplant. After watching video of Patrick, Dr. Zajac contacts the journalist and pledges to find a suitable hand donor for him. Doris Clausen, a married woman in Wisconsin, wants to give Patrick Wallingford her husband’s left hand—that is, after her husband dies. But Doris also has some unusual conditions attached to the prospective donation.

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Random House
Language
English
Pages
336

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Subjects
Donation of organs, tissues, etc., Football fans, Hand, Interpersonal relations, Surgery, Television journalists, Transplant surgeons, Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc., Fiction, Love stories
Places
Green Bay, Wisconsin
Times
1990s

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Table of Contents

1. The Lion Guy Page 3 2. The Former Midfielder Page 26 3. Before Meeting Mrs. Clausen Page 50 4. A Japanese Interlude Page 58 5. An Accident on Super Bowl Sunday Page 90 6. The Strings Attached Page 107 7. The Twinge Page 123 8. Rejection and Success Page 138 9. Wallingford Meets a Fellow Traveler Page 155 10. Trying to Get Fired Page 193 11. Up North Page 230 12. Lambeau Field Page 275 Acknowledgments Page 315

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Published in
New York, USA
Copyright Date
2001

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813' .54 (ddc21)
Library of Congress
PS 3559. R8 F68 2001b

Contributors

Cover Design
Honi Werner
Cover Photographs
Stern Imaging
Author Photographer
Jane Sobel
Book Designer
Barbara M. Bachman

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
xii, 316 p.
Number of pages
336
Dimensions
22.1 x 14 x 2.3 centimeters
Weight
408 grams

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL8528946M
Internet Archive
fourthhandnovel0000irvi
ISBN 10
0965197662
ISBN 13
9780965197663
LCCN
2001018155
OCLC/WorldCat
45791398
Library Thing
2956
Goodreads
112314

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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.
Page 3, added by Alex Voytek.

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