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Tom Hanks In Conversation With Gabby Wood
Tom Hanks live from the Southbank Centre talking about his new Uncommon Type. Out now: http://amzn.to/2lIqjyW Actor, screenwriter, director and producer, Tom Hanks unveils his fisrt collection of fiction. Uncommon Type is 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. 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subscribe to the Penguin channel: http://ift.tt/2ygTzig Follow us here: Twitter | http://www.twitter.com/penguinukbooks Website | http://ift.tt/xNmtGX Instagram | http://ift.tt/2ygyyo2 Facebook | http://ift.tt/2wmBKky

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