Uncommon type : some stories
Hanks, Tom2018
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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. A small-town newspaper columnist with old-fashioned views of the modern world. A woman adjusting to life in a new neighbourhood 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. 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.
Main title:
Uncommon type : some stories / Tom Hanks ; photographs by Kevin Twomey.
Author:
Hanks, Tom, authorTwomey, Kevin, photographer (expression)
Imprint:
London : Arrow Books, 2018.
Collation:
x, 405 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: London: William Heinemann, 2017.
ISBN:
9781784759438 (pbk. :)
Local class:
Fict
Language:
English
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BRN:
1882991
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