KS5/Adult LRC Book Recommendation - Uncommon Type by Tom Hanks
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 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 neighbourhood 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.
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