Description
One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, USA Today National Bestseller
A small-town newspaper columnist with old-fashioned views of the modern world. A World War II veteran grappling with his emotional and physical scars. A second-rate actor plunged into sudden stardom and a whirlwind press junket. Four friends traveling to the moon in a rocketship built in the backyard. These are just some of the stories that Tom Hanks captures in his first work of fiction: a collection of shorts that explore--with great affection, humor, and insight--the human condition in all its foibles. The stories are linked by one thing: in each of them, a typewriter plays a part, sometimes minor, sometimes central. To many, typewriters represent a level of craftsmanship, beauty, and individuality that is harder and harder to find in the modern world. In these stories, Hanks gracefully reaches that typewriter-worthy level. By turns whimsical, witty, and moving, Uncommon Type establishes him as a welcome and wonderful new voice in contemporary fiction.
Author: Tom Hanks
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 09/04/2018
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9781101911945
ISBN10: 1101911948
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Anthologies (multiple authors)
A small-town newspaper columnist with old-fashioned views of the modern world. A World War II veteran grappling with his emotional and physical scars. A second-rate actor plunged into sudden stardom and a whirlwind press junket. Four friends traveling to the moon in a rocketship built in the backyard. These are just some of the stories that Tom Hanks captures in his first work of fiction: a collection of shorts that explore--with great affection, humor, and insight--the human condition in all its foibles. The stories are linked by one thing: in each of them, a typewriter plays a part, sometimes minor, sometimes central. To many, typewriters represent a level of craftsmanship, beauty, and individuality that is harder and harder to find in the modern world. In these stories, Hanks gracefully reaches that typewriter-worthy level. By turns whimsical, witty, and moving, Uncommon Type establishes him as a welcome and wonderful new voice in contemporary fiction.
Author: Tom Hanks
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 09/04/2018
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9781101911945
ISBN10: 1101911948
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Anthologies (multiple authors)
About the Author
Tom Hanks has been an actor, screenwriter, director and, through Playtone, a producer. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker. This is his first collection of fiction.