Thirteen stories, some linked, and a series of
small-town newspaper diary pieces (‘Our Town Today, with Hank Fiset’), form
this collection by actor, now author, Tom Hanks.
The subject matters are generally slices of
contemporary American life, though some take the author’s showbiz world as
their milieu. The stories are well constructed with authentic characters, plots
that lead somewhere interesting and conclude satisfactorily. And while that may
be unfashionably old school, it works for this reviewer; the newspaper pieces,
less so. The reference in each story to an old model of typewriter (Hanks
collects them) is forgivably unobtrusive and serves to provide a title for the
anthology.
A pleasurable and varied collection inevitably
read with Hanks’ distinctive voice in mind, which does no harm to the
experience at all.
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