New York, NY: Vintage (2017)

Paperback.

As new.

This bestselling collection of seventeen wonderful short stories shows that two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is as talented a writer as he is an actor.

A small-town newspaper columnist with old-fashioned views of the modern world. 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. Four friends travel to the moon and back in a rocketship constructed in the backyard. These are just some of the people and situations that Tom Hanks captures in his first work of fiction: a story collection that explores, with great affection, humor, 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 these stories, Mr. Hanks gracefully reaches that typewriter-worthy level.