Uncommon Type: Some Stories

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THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

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“Alan Bean Plus Four” first appeared in The New Yorker on October 24, 2014.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Names: Hanks, Tom, author.

Title: Uncommon type : some stories / by Tom Hanks.

Description: First edition. | New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017006246 | ISBN 9781101946152 (hardcover) ISBN 9781101946169 (ebook) | ISBN 9781524711313 (open market)

Classification: LCC PS3608.A71522 A6 2017 | DDC 813/.6—DC23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017006246

Hanks, Tom, author

Uncommon type : some stories / Tom Hanks.

Issued in print and electronic formats.

ISBN 978-0-7352-7383-2 | eBook ISBN 978-0-7352-7385-6

I. Title.

PS3608.A5575U53 2017 813’.6 C2017-901561-3

Ebook ISBN 9781101946169

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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