{"product_id":"uncommon-type-some-stories-172-grand","title":"Uncommon Type: Some Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 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 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.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. 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.Known 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.\u003cbr\u003eDimensions: 135 x 216\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Tom Hanks\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781785151521\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003ePages: 416\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bookhero.ae","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45347233792153,"sku":"5RC9781785151521","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0580\/5696\/6297\/files\/680f40c544170_Uncommon_Type-_Some_Stories__172_GRAND__Tom_Hanks.jpg?v=1745915509","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.ae\/products\/uncommon-type-some-stories-172-grand","provider":"Dubai - Buy Used\/Second-Hand Books - BookHero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}