{"product_id":"uncommon-type-some-stories","title":"Uncommon Type: Some Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\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.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eComes with exclusive extras to Goldsboro Books: two postcards and a bookmark.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA 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 fathers secret life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKnown for his honesty and sensitivity as an actor, Mr Hanks brings both those characteristics to his writing. Alternatingly whimsical, moving and occasionally melancholy, \u003cem\u003eUncommon Type\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldsboro Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47264407847206,"sku":"uncommon-type-some-stories","price":200.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4900\/5606\/files\/591e6d15-31eb-41d8-ad85-cf9347aba636.jpg?v=1701096689","url":"https:\/\/goldsborobooks.pro\/products\/uncommon-type-some-stories","provider":"Goldsboro Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}