{"product_id":"uncommon-type-some-stories-1","title":"Tom Hanks: Uncommon Type [2017] paperback","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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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. A small-town newspaper columnist with old-fashioned views of the modern world. A woman adjusting to life in a new neighborhood after her divorce. Four friends going to the moon and back in a rocket ship constructed in the backyard. A teenage surfer stumbling into his father's secret life.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThese 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. 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 his stories, Mr Hanks gracefully reaches that typewriter-worthy level.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eKnown for his honesty and sensitivity as an actor, Mr Hanks brings both those characteristics to his writing. Alternatingly whimsical, moving and occasionally melancholy, Uncommon Type is a book that will delight as well as surprise his millions of fans. It also establishes him as a welcome and wonderful new voice in contemporary fiction, a voice that perceptively delves beneath the surface of friendships, families, love and normal, everyday behaviour.","brand":"Hanks, Tom","offers":[{"title":"Good","offer_id":48858689175891,"sku":"XG81785151521","price":4.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":47190514958675,"sku":"XV81785151521","price":6.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"New","offer_id":44825036161314,"sku":"9781785151521","price":9.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/hanks-tom-tom-hanks-uncommon-type-2017-paperback-1141450082.jpg?v=1740691569","url":"https:\/\/keatsandchapman.info\/products\/uncommon-type-some-stories-1","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}