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Uncommon type : some stories / Tom Hanks ; photographs by Kevin Twomey.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: First editionDescription: viii, 405 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781101946152
  • 1101946156
Uniform titles:
  • Short stories. Selections
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Three exhausting weeks -- Christmas Eve 1953 -- A junket in the city of light -- Our town today with Hank Fiset: an elephant in the pressroom -- Welcome to Mars -- A month on Green Street -- Alan Bean plus four -- Our town today with Hank Fiset: at loose in the Big Apple -- Who's who? -- A special weekend -- These are the meditations of my heart -- Our town today with Hank Fiset: back from back in time -- The past is important to us -- Stay with us -- Go see Costas -- Our town today with Hank Fiset: your Evangelista, Esperanza -- Steve Wong is perfect.
Summary: "A gentle Eastern European immigrant arrives in New York City after his family and his life have been torn apart by his country's civil war. A man who loves to bowl rolls a perfect game--and then another and then another and then many more in a row until he winds up ESPN's newest celebrity, and he must decide if the combination of perfection and celebrity has ruined the thing he loves. An eccentric billionaire and his faithful executive assistant venture into America looking for acquisitions and discover a down and out motel, romance, and a bit of real life. These are just some of the tales Tom Hanks tells in this first collection of his short stories..."--Publisher annotation.Summary: Hanks provides a collection of stories that are surprising, intelligent, and heartwarming. The stories are linked by one thing: in each a typewriter plays a part: sometimes minor, sometimes central.
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Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library Fiction Hanks, Tom Available 33111008968444
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Fiction Hanks, Tom Available 33111008832715
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A collection of seventeen wonderful short stories showing that the legendary Tom Hanks is as talented a writer as he is an actor.

"Reading Tom Hanks's Uncommon Type is like finding out that Alice Munro is also the greatest actress of our time." --Ann Patchett, bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Dutch House

A gentle Eastern European immigrant arrives in New York City after his family and his life have been torn apart by his country's civil war. A man who loves to bowl rolls a perfect game--and then another and then another and then many more in a row until he winds up ESPN's newest celebrity, and he must decide if the combination of perfection and celebrity has ruined the thing he loves. An eccentric billionaire and his faithful executive assistant venture into America looking for acquisitions and discover a down and out motel, romance, and a bit of real life.

These are just some of the tales Tom Hanks tells in this first collection of his short stories. They are surprising, intelligent, heartwarming, and, for the millions and millions of Tom Hanks fans, an absolute must-have!

"A gentle Eastern European immigrant arrives in New York City after his family and his life have been torn apart by his country's civil war. A man who loves to bowl rolls a perfect game--and then another and then another and then many more in a row until he winds up ESPN's newest celebrity, and he must decide if the combination of perfection and celebrity has ruined the thing he loves. An eccentric billionaire and his faithful executive assistant venture into America looking for acquisitions and discover a down and out motel, romance, and a bit of real life. These are just some of the tales Tom Hanks tells in this first collection of his short stories..."--Publisher annotation.

Three exhausting weeks -- Christmas Eve 1953 -- A junket in the city of light -- Our town today with Hank Fiset: an elephant in the pressroom -- Welcome to Mars -- A month on Green Street -- Alan Bean plus four -- Our town today with Hank Fiset: at loose in the Big Apple -- Who's who? -- A special weekend -- These are the meditations of my heart -- Our town today with Hank Fiset: back from back in time -- The past is important to us -- Stay with us -- Go see Costas -- Our town today with Hank Fiset: your Evangelista, Esperanza -- Steve Wong is perfect.

Hanks provides a collection of stories that are surprising, intelligent, and heartwarming. The stories are linked by one thing: in each a typewriter plays a part: sometimes minor, sometimes central.

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