You’ll love it as much as his flicks.

Tom Hanks proves that his talents go beyond acting with his brilliant first collection of short fiction, now in paperback. The stories—each of which contains references to an old-fashioned typewriter (a self-proclaimed obsession of Hanks’s)—are moving and funny and feature memorable characters, including a woman adjusting to postdivorce life in a new neighbourhood; a newspaper columnist whose outdated views aren’t meshing with the modern world; and two friends in the midst of an affair.

Uncommon Type (Vintage Canada) By Tom Hanks, $22. 

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