Author(s): John Irving

SECONDHAND BOOKS | Literary Fiction

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; meanwhile, in the distracting aftermath of an acrimonious divorce, the surgeon is seduced by his housekeeper.

Bloomsbury, 2001. First edition, first printing. A very good copy in a very good d/w.