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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.… (altro)
Un'altra bellissima storia (è questo il termine più adatto) di Irving, narrata con la sua consueta carica di ironia e a tratti di vera comicità, in un contesto invece drammatico. Ci si innamora del protagonista e dei personaggi che lo circondano. Ormai è tra i miei autori preferiti e sto leggendo tutta la sua produzione. Lettura consigliata...(a chi ne condivide lo stile!). ( )
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'... wie ergens naar op zoek is, verplaatst zich niet zo snel.' (de man van het telefoon bedrijf in E.B.Whites Stuart Little)
Dedica
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Voor Richard Gladstein en Lasse Hallstrom
Incipit
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Imagine a young man on his way to a less-than-thirty-second event--the loss of his left hand, long before he reached middle age.
Citazioni
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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)
Ultime parole
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Hluší jako všichni milenci, ani oni nevnímali poryvy větru, který nepřestával burácet divokou, nehostinnou wisconsinskou nocí.
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.
Ci si innamora del protagonista e dei personaggi che lo circondano.
Ormai è tra i miei autori preferiti e sto leggendo tutta la sua produzione.
Lettura consigliata...(a chi ne condivide lo stile!). ( )