Uncommon Type: Some Stories [Audiobook] download free by Tom Hanks
- Listen audiobook: Uncommon Type: Some Stories
- Author: Tom Hanks
- Release date: 2018/7/5
- Publisher: CORNERSTONE
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9781785151521
- Rating: 9.71 of 10
- Votes: 357
- Review by: Mariam Jett
- Review rating: 7.78 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/22
- Duration: 5H12M15S in 256 kbps (83.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-14
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG4, WMA, AU, MP3, WAV, FLAC (compression LZ, TAR, RAR, TAR.BZ, ZIP, TAR.7Z)
- Total pages original book: 416
- Includes a PDF summary of 46 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 35M10S (9.2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval, Contemporary Fiction, Short Story Books
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 19.50 USD
- Dimensions: 135x216x29mm
- Weight: 439g
- Printed by: William Heinemann Ltd
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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