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Uncommon Type

Large Print
(432 Pages)
Product Number: LP4487
Released: 01 Aug, 2018
Business Term: Purchase
ISBN: #9781528814805
Publisher: W F Howes
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Description

A collection of seventeen wonderful short stories showing that two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is as talented a writer as he is an actor. A hectic, funny sexual affair between two best friends. A World War II veteran dealing with his emotional and physical scars. A second-rate actor plunged into sudden stardom and a whirlwind press junket. Four friends going to the moon and back in a rocket ship constructed in the backyard. These are just some of the people and situations that Tom Hanks explores in his first work of fiction, a collection of stories that dissects, with great affection, humour and insight, the human condition and all its foibles.

Author(s): Tom Hanks
Original Publish Date: 01 Aug, 2018

Professional reviews

"Tom Hanks brings both honesty and sensitivity to his writing. Alternatingly whimsical, moving and occasionally melancholy, Uncommon Type is a book that will delight and surprise his millions of fans. "The great strengths of this collection are decency and sentimentality." SUNDAY TIMES "It turns out that Tom Hanks is also a wise and hilarious writer with an endlessly surprising mind. Damn it." STEVE MARTIN"

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