About the book
Actor Tom Hanks, a two-time Oscar winner, gathers seventeen short stories in his first collection of fiction. In one, a gentle immigrant from Eastern Europe reaches New York City after civil war in his homeland has torn his family and his life apart. In another, a man who loves bowling rolls perfect game after perfect game until ESPN makes him a celebrity, and he has to decide whether fame has spoiled the sport for him. A third follows an eccentric billionaire and his loyal executive assistant as they travel across America in search of acquisitions. The collection reached the New York Times best seller list.
Stephen Fry praised Hanks as a genuine writer and said the stories run from hilarious to deeply touching.
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Stephen Fry (President/Mind)
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.
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