Fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 316 pages; Physical desc. : x, 316 p ; 21 cm. Subjects: Reporters and reporting - Fiction. Hand - Surgery - Fiction. Transplantation / donation of organs, tissues, etc. - Fiction.
"Sinopsis" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.
Críticas:
Irving's latest novel kicks off with an extraordinary incident. Sent to cover a colourful "human interest" story in a circus in Gujarat, its protagonist - a New York TV journalist - becomes the story himself when he is mauled by a lion which takes his hand off at the wrist. The whole grisly thing is caught on camera and shown around the world. But that's not all. A viewer in Wisconsin is moved to "donate" her husband's hand as a replacement, in some pioneering surgery, The only problem being that her husband is still very much alive and well... Irving's book mixes satire, black comedy, sexual picaresque (the journalist in question is an inveterate womaniser) with something else again. The mysterious painkiller which he is given in India opens unexpected vistas in the mind of the unfortunate main character. It's an inventive, funny, sexy book which also gets serious about love, loss and fate.
Reseña del editor:
While reporting from India, a journalist has his left hand eaten by a lion; millions of TV viewers witness it. In Boston a surgeon awaits the opportunity to perform the nation's first hand transplant, and a woman in Wisonsin wants to give the journalist her husband's hand - but he is still alive.
"Sobre este título" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.
- EditorialBloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Año de publicación2001
- ISBN 10 0747554323
- ISBN 13 9780747554325
- EncuadernaciónTapa dura
- Número de edición1
- Número de páginas326
-
Valoración
-
3,33
30.609 calificaciones proporcionadas por
Goodreads