Arrow Uncommon type: some stories | tom hanks

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• A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA 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.