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The Fourth Handasks an interesting question: “How can anyone identify a dream of the future?” The answer: “Destiny is not imaginable, except in dreams or to those in love." While reporting a story from India, a New York television journalist has his left hand eaten by a lion; millions of TV viewers witness the accident. In Boston, a renowned hand 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. A married woman in Wisconsin wants to give the one-handed reporter her husband’s left hand – that is, after her husband dies. But the husband is alive, relatively young, and healthy. This is how John Irving’s tenth novel begins; it seems, at first, to be a comedy, perhaps a satire, almost certainly a sexual farce. Yet, in the end,The Fourth Handis as realistic and emotionally moving as any of Mr. Irving’s previous novels – includingThe World According to Garp, A Prayer for Owen Meany, andA Widow for One Year– or his Oscar-winning screenplay ofThe Cider House Rules. The Fourth Handis characteristic of John Irving’s seamless storytelling and further explores some of the author’s recurring themes – loss, grief, love as redemption. But this novel also breaks new ground; it offers a penetrating look at the power of second chances and the will to change. From the Trade Paperback edition.… (meer)
Hoe meer boeken ik van John Irving lees hoe meer ik vind dat de personen in zijn verschillende boeken dezelfde zijn, hetzelfde karakter hebben. Zou het misschien een weerspiegeling van de auteur zelf zijn, of een weerspiegeling van de persoon die hij zou willen of helemaal niet willen zijn? ( )
'... wie ergens naar op zoek is, verplaatst zich niet zo snel.' (de man van het telefoon bedrijf in E.B.Whites Stuart Little)
Opdracht
Voor Richard Gladstein en Lasse Hallstrom
Eerste woorden
Verbeeld je een jongeman aan de vooravond van een gebeurtenis van nog geen halve minuut: het verlies van zijn linkerhand in de kracht van zijn leven.
Citaten
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
But books, and sometimes movies, are more personal than that; they can be mutually appreciated, but the specific reasons for loving them cannot satisfactorily be shared. (Patrick Wallingford)
Bez ustání se polekaně usmíval jako kdosi, kdo tuší, že vás už někde potkal, ale nemůže si vzpomenout, při jaké příležitosti. Možná si lámal hlavu, zda to bylo na pohřbu, nebo v bordelu, což by vysvětlovalo, proč se v jeho úsměvu tak znepokojivě snoubil zármutek s rozpaky. (s.7)
Jenže knihy - a někdy i filmy - jsou záležitostmi intimnějšího rázu: lidé se jim mohou společně obdivovat, ale každý pro to má vlastní důvody, které jsou zřídkakdy totožné s důvody druhých lidí. (s.248)
Laatste woorden
Net als alle andere gelieven hadden ze geen erg in de rondjagende wind die maar doorwaaide in de wilde en onverschillige Noord-Amerikaanse nacht.
The Fourth Handasks an interesting question: “How can anyone identify a dream of the future?” The answer: “Destiny is not imaginable, except in dreams or to those in love." While reporting a story from India, a New York television journalist has his left hand eaten by a lion; millions of TV viewers witness the accident. In Boston, a renowned hand 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. A married woman in Wisconsin wants to give the one-handed reporter her husband’s left hand – that is, after her husband dies. But the husband is alive, relatively young, and healthy. This is how John Irving’s tenth novel begins; it seems, at first, to be a comedy, perhaps a satire, almost certainly a sexual farce. Yet, in the end,The Fourth Handis as realistic and emotionally moving as any of Mr. Irving’s previous novels – includingThe World According to Garp, A Prayer for Owen Meany, andA Widow for One Year– or his Oscar-winning screenplay ofThe Cider House Rules. The Fourth Handis characteristic of John Irving’s seamless storytelling and further explores some of the author’s recurring themes – loss, grief, love as redemption. But this novel also breaks new ground; it offers a penetrating look at the power of second chances and the will to change. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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