![]() ![]() This leaves Patrick flawed in a way that's pretty tough to hide - and presents Irving with ample opportunities to show us just how tough a hide Patrick really has.īecause Patrick is a celebrity (inasmuch as the general public knows who he is), news of the accident makes him even more of one. ![]() At one point, a lion grabs his microphone and swallows it down - while Patrick's hand is holding it. ![]() Patrick Wallingford, a supremely handsome 24-hour news reporter, is in India, doing a piece about a circus. Where Garp and Widow present an almost endless number of fascinating characters whom we follow through many years and many (mis)adventures, The Fourth Hand limits itself to a small group of people, none of whom is particularly interesting. Conversely, The Fourth Hand belongs on the opposite end of the Irving spectrum. Widow ranks among, I think, Irving's best books, the best of which is The World According To Garp. ![]() I was reading his last novel, A Widow For One Year, when I became aware of the new one - and I was loving it. The new John Irving novel, The Fourth Hand, fell neatly into this latter category. ![]()
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