Uncommon type : some stories / Tom Hanks ; photographs by Kevin Twomey.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Short stories. Selections
Main Author: Hanks, Tom (Author)
Other Authors: Twomey, Kevin (Photographer)
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Typewriters > Fiction.
Typewriters.
Short stories.
Fiction.
Genre:
Fiction.
Short stories.
Physical Description:viii, 405 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Three exhausting weeks
  • Christmas Eve 1953
  • A junket in the city of light
  • Our town today with Hank Fiset: An elephant in the pressroom
  • Welcome to Mars
  • A month on Green Street
  • Alan Bean plus four
  • Our town today with Hank Fiset: At loose in the Big Apple
  • Who's who?
  • A special weekend
  • These are the meditations of my heart
  • Our town today with Hank Fiset: Back from back in time
  • The past is important to us
  • Stay with us
  • Go see Costas
  • Our town today with Hank Fiset: Your Evangelista, Esperanza
  • Steve Wong is perfect.