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.
This is his first collection of fiction..
His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker.
About the Author: Tom Hanks has been an actor, screenwriter, director and, through Playtone, a producer.
By turns whimsical, witty, and moving, Uncommon Type establishes him as a welcome and wonderful new voice in contemporary fiction.
In these stories, Hanks gracefully reaches that typewriter-worthy level.
To many, typewriters represent a level of craftsmanship, beauty, and individuality that is harder and harder to find in the modern world.
The Stories are linked by one thing: in each of them, a typewriter plays a part, sometimes minor, sometimes central.
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.
Four friends traveling to the moon in a rocketship built in the backyard.
A second-rate actor plunged into sudden stardom and a whirlwind press junket.
A World War II veteran grappling with his emotional and physical scars.
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
