Uncommon Type: Some Stories

　　奧斯卡金獎影帝湯姆．漢克斯（Tom Hanks）第一本創作小說，17篇短篇故事，聰明又溫暖人心。
　　
　　耗時兩年，金獎影帝湯姆．漢克斯（Tom Hanks）驚艷文壇的小說處女作終於問世！
　　
　　本書共收錄17篇短篇故事，主題圍繞著舊式打字機發展，在每個故事背後，幾乎都可以看見舊式打字機縮影。
　　
　　而這些內容溫馨的故事包括一個飽受內戰摧殘的東歐家族，放棄一切來到紐約後的生活；一個古怪的億萬富翁與他的助理在一趟併購之旅時，意外發現破舊的旅館以及一些浪漫還有生活現實。
　　
　　湯姆．漢克斯所講述的故事令人驚豔、聰明又溫暖人心，喜歡他的影迷絕對不能錯過！（文/博客來編譯）
　　
　　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 gentle Eastern European immigrant arrives in New York City after his family and his life have been torn apart by his country's civil war. A man who loves to bowl rolls a perfect game--and then another and then another and then many more in a row until he winds up ESPN's newest celebrity, and he must decide if the combination of perfection and celebrity has ruined the thing he loves. An eccentric billionaire and his faithful executive assistant venture into America looking for acquisitions and discover a down and out motel, romance, and a bit of real life. These are just some of the tales Tom Hanks tells in this first collection of his short stories. They are surprising, intelligent, heartwarming, and, for the millions and millions of Tom Hanks fans, an absolute must-have!
　　
　　Review
　　“It turns out that Tom Hanks is also a wise and hilarious writer with an endlessly surprising mind. Damn it.”
　　—Steve Martin
　　
　　“The central quality to Tom’s writing is a kind of poignant playfulness. It’s exactly what you hope from him, except you wish he were sitting in your home, reading it aloud to you, one story at a time.”
　　—Mindy Kaling
　　
　　“Wait—Tom Hanks can write, too? Funny, moving, deftly surprising stories? That's just swell. Maybe there's no crying in baseball, pal, but it's perfectly acceptable in the book business. That's how we drown envy.”
　　—Carl Hiaasen
　　
　　“Mr. Hanks turns out to be as authentically genuine a Writer with as capital a W as ever touched a typewriter key. The stories in UNCOMMON TYPE range from the hilarious to the deeply touching. They move in period, location and manner, but all demonstrate a joy in writing, a pleasure in communicating an intensely American sense of atmosphere, friendship, life and family that is every bit as smart, engaging and humane as the man himself. All with that extra quality of keenly observant and sympathetic intelligence that has always set Tom Hanks apart. I blink, bubble and boggle in amazed admiration.”
　　—Stephen Fry
　　
　　“Uncommon Type is funny, wise, gloriously inventive and humane. Tom Hanks sees inside people – a wary divorcee, a billionaire trading desire for disaster, a boy witnessing his father’s infidelity, a motley crew shooting for the moon – with such acute empathy and good humour we’d follow him anywhere. The cumulative effect is of a world I didn’t want to leave.”
　　—Anna Funder
　　
　　“Reading Tom Hanks's Uncommon Type is like finding out that Alice Munro is also the greatest actress of our time.”
　　—Ann Patchett
　　
　　“Seventeen wide-ranging and whimsical stories—with a typewriter tucked into each one. Only one of the stories in Hanks' debut features an actor: it's a sharp satire with priceless insider details about a handsome dope on a press junket in Europe. The other 16 span a surprisingly wide spectrum…Hanks can write the hell out of typing, and his dialogue is excellent, too. Has he read William Saroyan? He should. 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