Uncommon Type: Some Stories * A SPLENDID COLLECTOR'S COPY - SIGNED,SLIPCASED EXCLUSIVE LIMITED $ NUMBERED 1ST EDITION/1ST PRINT

Hanks, Tom

ISBN 10: 1785151517 / ISBN 13: 9781785151514

Published by William Heinemann, 2017

About this Item

An excellent UK first edition/ first print LIMITED EDITION slipcased hardback. Comes with bookmark and two postcards (as pictured). This copy is one of just 750 EXCLUSIVE COPIES that has been SIGNED by Tom Hanks on the title page (which also has a special red typewriter stamp), this is no. 720/750. The book is unread and in very fine/ fine condition. Please note slight nudge on jacket at top of spine due to tight fit in slipcase. Further photos available on request. Please note all of my books are securely wrapped and shipped with care in protective packaging within 2 working days.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Uncommon Type: Some Stories * A SPLENDID COLLECTOR'S COPY - SIGNED,SLIPCASED EXCLUSIVE LIMITED $ NUMBERED 1ST EDITION/1ST PRINT
• Publisher: William Heinemann
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1785151517
• ISBN 13: 9781785151514
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR

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 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.

About the Author

Tom Hanks has won Academy Awards for best actor for Philadelphia and Forrest Gump. He has starred in, among many other films, Big, Sleepless in Seattle, Apollo 13, Saving Private Ryan, The Green Mile, Cast Away, Catch Me If You Can, Captain Phillips, Bridge of Spies, Sully, Toy Story, The Post, and It's a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker. He is also the author of a best-selling collection of stories, Uncommon Type.