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Rent The Fourth Hand
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Format: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: May 2002
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Retail Price: $7.99
Pages: 352
Synopsis
Patrick Wallingford, a TV reporter, is good looking, successful, and a hit with women. On an assignment, his hand is bitten off by a lion, making him into an instant media celebrity. He meets a childless woman who offers him the hand of her dead husband if he will impregnate her. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001.
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