Read by two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks. A collection of seventeen wonderful short stories showing that Tom Hanks is as talented a writer as he is an actor.
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.
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.
*Stephen Fry*
Reading Tom Hanks’s Uncommon Type is like finding out that Alice
Munro is also the greatest actress of our time.
*Ann Patchett*
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*
The central quality to Tom’s writing is a kind of poignant
playfulness. It’s exactly what you hope from him, except you wish
he was sitting in your home, reading it aloud to you, one story at
a time.
*Mindy Kaling*
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