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Uncommon Type, a collection of 17 stories, will be released Oct. 2017.

Good news for Tom Hanks fans: the beloved actor, producer, and director can now add the title of “author” to his resume.

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Hanks’ first book, a short story collection called Uncommon Type, will be published by Knopf (an imprint of Penguin Random House) in October 2017.

The audiobook version will also feature Hanks reading his prose.

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UNCOMMON TYPE contains seventeen stories, each in some way involving a different typewriter (Hanks is an avid collector of vintage typewriters and owns over one hundred of them). The stories feature an immigrant arriving in New York City after his family and life have been torn apart by his country’s civil war; a man who bowls a perfect game (and then another, and another), becoming ESPN’s newest celebrity; an eccentric billionaire and his faithful executive assistant on the hunt for something larger in America; and the junket life of an actor.

Via Knopf

And here’s the book cover:

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