Uncommon Type features seventeen stories, each in some way involving a different typewriter (Hanks is an avid collector of vintage typewriters and owns over one hundred of them). In the book, there is a story about an immigrant arriving in New York City after his family and life have been torn apart by his country's civil war; another about a man who bowls a perfect game (and then another, and another); another about an eccentric billionaire and his faithful executive assistant on the hunt for something larger in America; and another about the junket life of an actor. With these astonishingly accomplished, vivid and vital stories, actor Tom Hanks proves himself to be an exuberant writing talent and an exciting new voice in fiction.
