Uncommon Type: Some Stories

For the first time in Russian—seventeen stories proving that the two-time “Oscar” laureate Tom Hanks is no less talented as a writer.

“Mr. Hanks turned out to be a real writer, with a capital ‘P’,” Stephen Fry recommends. “Some of the stories in this book will make you laugh out loud; others will move you to tears.” Hanks’s characters go to the Moon in a homemade rocket, get stuck in Paris during the promotion tour of the blockbuster “Cassandra Rampart III: Fear on the Threshold,” and return again and again to the same day of “The World of Tomorrow” at the 1939 New York World’s Fair. They prefer a vintage typewriter to a computer…

“In the span of two years, I shot in New York, Berlin, Atlanta, Budapest, and other cities. All this time I was writing,” Hanks himself said. “I worked on press tours, in hotels, on airplanes, at home, even on vacation. When my schedule allowed, I wrote from morning until one in the morning—on different typewriters from my collection.”