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Title: Flat
Review: Visitation rights for a hand? I soldiered on through this book hoping that it would get better, but to no avail.Irving is a good storyteller, and there are several entertaining passages in Fourth Hand. Unfortunately, this time around Irving doesn&#65533;t manage to bring the quirky elements and offbeat characters together into a coherent novel as he had succeeded in doing in previous efforts (Garp and Owen Meany jump to mind). I read almost the whole novel on one long round-trip flight; had I not been a captive audience strapped into my seat at 30,000 feet I would have aborted the effort and selected something else form the bookcase. I&#65533;ll give the book two stars for a couple of funny scenes, but overall not recommended.
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