The Fourth Hand

Proof copy. 8vo. Pp. [x], 316, [3]. Pictorial wrappers.

Author's tenth novel. A New York Times Notable Book. While on a reporting assignment to India, a New York journalist inadvertently becomes his own headline when his left hand is eaten by a lion on live TV. Dedicated to Richard Gladstein and Lasse Hallström, producer and director respectively of the film adaptation of his 1985 novel The Cider House Rules, which was brought to fruition in 1999 after nearly a decade in development. In January 2001, Mr. Irving was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. "A riveting entertainment and certainly one of the funniest novels of the year." –Chicago Sun-Times