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Uncommon Type: Some Stories
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION FROM THE AUTHOR’Impressive’ The Times’Funny and pitch perfect’ Sunday Express’I blink, bubble and boggle in amazed admiration’ Stephen Fry’These stories are a hit’ Financial Times 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 travelling to the moon in a rocket ship built in the backyard. These are just some of the stories that Tom Hanks captures with great affection, humour and insight – the human condition in all its foibles.
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| Weight | 0.343 kg |
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| Dimensions | 2.7 × 13 × 19.9 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Language | |
| Pages | 432 |
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| Year Published | 2020-11-26 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 178609133X |
| About The Author | Tom Hanks has won Academy Awards for best actor for Philadelphia and Forrest Gump. He has starred in, among many other films, Big, Sleepless in Seattle, Apollo 13, Saving Private Ryan, The Green Mile, Cast Away, Catch Me If You Can, Captain Phillips, Bridge of Spies, Sully, Toy Story, The Post, and It's a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker. He is also the author of a best-selling collection of stories, Uncommon Type. |
| Review Quote | Mr. Hanks turns out to be as authentically genuine a Writer with a capital W as ever touched a typewriter key. The stories in Uncommon Type range from the hilarious to the deeply touching. They move in period, location and manner, but all demonstrate a joy in writing, a pleasure in communicating an intensely American sense of atmosphere, friendship, life and family that is every bit as smart, engaging and humane as the man himself. All with that extra quality of keenly observant and sympathetic intelligence that has always set Tom Hanks apart. I blink, bubble and boggle in amazed admiration. |
| Other text | Reading Tom Hanks’s Uncommon Type is like finding out that Alice Munro is also the greatest actress of our time. |
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