Uncommon Type - Some Stories

Tom Hanks

William Heinemann

2017

416 páginas

13h 52m

ISBN-13: 9781785151514

A hectic, funny sexual affair between two best friends. 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. A small-town newspaper columnist with old-fashioned views of the modern world. A woman adjusting to life in a new neighborhood after her divorce. Four friends going to the moon and back in a rocket ship constructed in the backyard. A teenage surfer stumbling into his father’s secret life.

These are just some of the people and situations that Tom Hanks explores in his first work of fiction, a collection of stories that dissects, with great affection, humour 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 his stories, Mr Hanks gracefully reaches that typewriter-worthy level.

Known for his honesty and sensitivity as an actor, Mr Hanks brings both those characteristics to his writing. Alternatingly whimsical, moving and occasionally melancholy, Uncommon Type is a book that will delight as well as surprise his millions of fans. It also establishes him as a welcome and wonderful new voice in contemporary fiction, a voice that perceptively delves beneath the surface of friendships, families, love and normal, everyday behaviour.

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“Mr. Moore, a retired cop, whose house shares my back fence, saw me running by and hollored out, ‘What the fuck got into you?’
‘A woman!’ I yelled back, and not only was that true, but I felt good saying it.”

Tipos incomuns é um livro com diversos contos. Cada conto narra uma história diferente, com personagens diferentes, mas em todos eles temos a presença de uma máquina de escrever, que às vezes desempenha um papel de grande importância, e às de menor importância.

A linguagem do livro é muito simples, e trata de várias situações do cotidiano das pessoas. Traz temas como amor, família, preconceitos, imigração e muitos outros.

Achei alguns contos mais arrastados, mas gostei de alguns. Muitos tem um tom bem divertido, e esses foram os que mais gostei. Os contos não são muito surpreendentes, e este é um ponto fraco do livro.

Eu ouvi o audiobook no original em inglês com a narração do próprio Tom, e foi maravilhoso ouvir ele interpretar os diversos personagens do livro.