Uncommon Type: Some Stories

Description

‘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.

Reviews

All American life is here… Delightful… Hanks’s prose is impressive, with a strong voice and stylistic flair… so fluent, convincing and confident that you forget it belongs to Tom Hanks, movie star. He’s just a writer. And he’s going to write a great novel one day. – The Times

On the page, as on screen, Hanks is, simply, a lovely person to be around… Hanks captures the child’s-eye view of the world with pitch-perfect accuracy … and as a writing project it nails perhaps the hardest thing of all: a story in which nothing and everything happens. – Guardian 

Author Biography

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.