A Unique Specimen. Stories about This and That

For the first time in Russian — seventeen stories proving that two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is no less talented as a writer. "Mr. Hanks turned out to be a real writer with a capital "W", - recommends Stephen Fry. - Some stories in this book will make you laugh out loud, others - will move you to tears." Hanks' characters go to the Moon in a homemade rocket, get stuck in Paris during the promotional tour of the blockbuster "Cassandra Rampart III: Fear on the Threshold", return again and again to the same day of the "World of Tomorrow" at the New York World's Fair of 1939, prefer a vintage typewriter to a computer... "For two years, I filmed 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 planes, at home, even on vacation. When my schedule allowed, I wrote from morning until one o'clock at night — on various typewriters from my collection."