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Lone Butte, 1947. Robby, cinque anni e una spiccata propensione per il disegno, incontra per la prima volta il leggendario zio Bob, appena tornato dalla guerra. Bob arriva in moto, ha l’aria sciupata ma affascinante e per Robby diventa subito un eroe: e lo resta anche quando sparisce, o forse proprio per quello. Oakland, 1971. Robby, diventato un autore di fumetti underground, riceve una lettera dallo zio Bob. Rievocando quello straor...

A proper literary belter' THE TIMES'Affectionate and endlessly entertaining' RICHARD OSMANA wildly ambitious story of the making of a colossal, star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film, and the humble comic book that inspired it all. Spanning 80 years of a changing America and culminating in the opening of the film, we meet a colourful cast of characters including a troubled soldier returning from war, a young boy with an artist...

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • From the legendary actor and best-selling author: a novel about the making of a star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film...and the humble comic books that inspired it. Funny, touching, and wonderfully thought-provoking, while also capturing the changes in America and American culture since World War II."Wild, ambitious and exceptionally enjoyable." —Matt Haig, best-sell...

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A stunning, emotionally satisfying tale about the art of storytelling. I never wanted the lights to come up. I could not put it down' GRAHAM NORTON'It's its own universe, complete with a sun, a cast of circling planets, and a limitless number of stars. Its gravity pulls you in and its far reaching, multi-layered, rollicking exuberance holds you in place. I would have been happy to live inside this book forever' ANN PATCHETTA wildly ambitious s...

From the legendary actor and best-selling author: a novel about the making of a star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film...and the humble comic books that inspired it. Funny, touching, and wonderfully thought-provoking, while also capturing the changes in America and American culture since World War II."Wild, ambitious and exceptionally enjoyable." —Matt Haig, best-selling author The Midnight Library,  The Humans and Reasons to ...

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the legendary actor and best-selling author: a novel about the making of a star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film...and the humble comic books that inspired it. Funny, touching, and wonderfully thought-provoking, while also capturing the changes in America and American culture since World War II."Wild, ambitious and exceptionally enjoyable." —Matt Haig, best-selling author The Midnight Library...

From the legendary actor and best-selling author: a novel about the making of a star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film...and the humble comic books that inspired it. Funny, touching, and wonderfully thought-provoking, while also capturing the changes in America and American culture since World War II."Wild, ambitious and exceptionally enjoyable." —Matt Haig, best-selling author The Midnight Library,  The Humans and Reasons to ...

A wildly ambitious story of the making of a colossal, star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film, and the humble comic book that inspired it all.Spanning 80 years of a changing America and culminating in the opening of the film, we meet a colourful cast of characters including a troubled soldier returning from war, a young boy with an artistic gift, an inspired and eccentric director, a pompous film star on the rise, a tireless pr...

From the legendary actor and best-selling author: a novel about the making of a star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film...and the humble comic books that inspired it. Funny, touching, and wonderfully thought-provoking, while also capturing the changes in America and American culture since World War II."Wild, ambitious and exceptionally enjoyable." —Matt Haig, best-selling author The Midnight Library,  The Humans and Reasons to ...

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.

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A collection of seventeen wonderful short stories showing that two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is as talented a writer as he is an actor. They are surprising, intelligent, heartwarming, and, for the millions and millions of Tom Hanks fans, an absolute must-have!"--Provided by publisher.

One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, USA TodayNational BestsellerA small-town newspaper columnist with old-fashioned views of the modern world. A World War II veteran grappling with his emotional and physical scars. A second-rate actor plunged into sudden stardom and a whirlwind press junket. Four friends traveling to the moon in a rocketship built in the backyard. These are just some of the stories that Tom Hanks captures in his first work...

Ob ein Junge wie Forrest Gump, ein einsamer Schiffbrüchiger oder ein Lehrer, der an Aids erkrankt - der Schauspieler Tom Hanks interessiert sich für besondere Menschen und verkörpert sie auf mitreißende Weise. Eigensinnige, fantasievolle Typen begegnen uns auch in ersten literarischen Storys von Tom Hanks: Einer von ihnen ist Steve Wong, den die Natur mit dem feinsten Ballgefühl der Welt ausgestattet hat, der keinesfalls aber über eine Bowling...

Von Genies und Sonderlingen: Kurzgeschichten des Oscar-Preisträgers Tom Hanks Ob ein Junge wie Forrest Gump, ein einsamer Schiffbrüchiger oder ein Lehrer, der an Aids erkrankt - der Schauspieler Tom Hanks interessiert sich für besondere Menschen und verkörpert sie auf mitreißende Weise. Eigensinnige, fantasievolle Typen begegnen uns auch in seinen Stories: Etwa Steve Wong, den die Natur mit dem feinsten Ballgefühl der Welt ausgestattet hat, de...

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Vpervye na russkom - semnadcat' istorij, dokazyvajushhih, chto dvukratnyj laureat «Oskara» Tom Hjenks ne menee talantliv i kak pisatel'. "Mister Hjenks okazalsja nastojashhim pisatelem s bol'shoj bukvy "P", - rekomenduet Stiven Fraj. - Odni rasskazy v jetoj knige zastavjat vas hohotat' v golos, drugie -- rastrogajut do slez". Geroi Hjenksa otpravljajutsja na Lunu v samodel'noj rakete, zastrevajut v Parizhe vo vremja promo-tura blokbastera "Kas...

Che cos'hanno in comune un immigrato bulgaro smarrito tra le mille luci di New York, un magnate del futuro che s'innamora perdutamente di una signora in verde del 1939, una neodivorziata disillusa che prende le misure del nuovo vicino troppo interessante per essere vero, un bambino sballottato tra mamma e papà, un giovane attore in overdose promozionale? La colonna sonora delle loro storie: il ticchettio obsoleto e affascinante di una macchina...

Read by two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks. A collection of seventeen wonderful short stories showing that Tom Hanks is as talented a writer as he is an actor.A gentle Eastern European immigrant arrives in New York City after his family and his life have been torn apart by his country's civil war. A man who loves to bowl rolls a perfect game - and then another and then another and then many more in a row until he winds up ESPN's newest celebrity,...