Uncommon Type (Hanks) - Book Reviews

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Oscar-winner Hanks’s debut collection is a wide-ranging affair of 17 stories threaded together by the recurring image of typewriters…. [T]he stories…generally charm.
Publishers Weekly


This story collection ranges from a man who worries that his sudden ESPN fame for bowling perfect games will ruin his life to an Eastern European immigrant struggling to adjust to New York after tragedy.
Library Journal


Tom Hanks has an understated [acting] style; the hard work …[is] under the surface, where we can’t see it. All we see is the truth of the character. The same goes for [his] 17 short stories in this thoroughly engaging book.
Booklist


[W]himsical stories—with a typewriter tucked into each one.… While these stories have the all-American sweetness, humor, and heart we associate with his screen roles, Hanks writes like a writer, not a movie star.”
Kirkus Reviews