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Availability:In StockContributor:Tom HanksPublish date:2018-09-04Pages:416
Language:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9781101911945ISBN-10:1101911948UPC:9781101911945Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Literary, Anthologies (multiple authors)Size:7.90 x 5.10 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.8818Product ID:SCN7HRT95R
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, USA Today - A collection of "first-rate" short stories (The New York Times) that explore--with great affection, humor, and insight--the human condition in all its foibles.

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.

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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9781101911945ISBN-10:1101911948UPC:9781101911945Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Literary, Anthologies (multiple authors)Size:7.90 x 5.10 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.8818Product ID:SCN7HRT95R
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.
Publisher: Vintage

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