The Fourth Hand

Irving’s main character—handsome, a favorite of women—was successfully climbing the career ladder when this terrible story happened to him. A multi-million audience watched the broadcast, and the journalist became famous. The operation will be performed by the best transplant surgeon, and an accidental admirer—coincidentally, the widow—will give for the transplant the hand of her dead husband… but with one condition—and what condition!

American writer John Irving is a master of psychological prose and an outstanding screenwriter. Films based on his novels never leave the screens of the whole world. This includes the Oscar-winning “The World According to Garp” (“Garp”), and “Hotel New Hampshire,” and “The Cider House Rules”—for the screenplay of which Irving also received an “Oscar,” while director Lasse Hallström was nominated for the award.

Now they are working together on the adaptation of the novel “The Fourth Hand.” It is expected that the role of the journalist—who during a TV report from an Indian circus had a lion bite off his hand—will be offered to George Clooney.