Books by Tom Hanks

Un amable inmigrante del este de Europa llega a Nueva York tras ver destruida su vida y su familia a causa de la guerra civil de su país. Un hombre que ama los bolos juega una partida perfecta... y luego otra, y otra, y muchas más seguidas, hasta que acaba convertido en la nueva celebridad del canal de deportes ESPN, y entonces debe decidir si la fama y la perfección combinadas han arruinado lo que más ama en el mundo. Un excéntrico millonario y su fiel ayudante se aventuran por América para buscar oportunidades de negocios y se encuentran con un motel de mala muerte, con un romance y con una pequeña dosis de la vida real. Éstas son algunas de las historias que narra Tom Hanks en su primera recopilación de relatos. Son historias sorprendentes, inteligentes, reconfortantes. Un libro realmente imprescindible para sus millones y millones de admiradores.Thomas Jeffrey "Tom" Hanks nació el 9 de julio de 1956. Conocido por sus papeles como actor en Big (1988), Philadephia (1993), Forrest Gump (1994), Apollo 13 (1995), Salvar al soldado Ryan, Tienes un e-mail (ambas en 1998), Cloud Atlas, así como por haber puesto voz a personajes de las películas animadas Polar Express o Toy Story. Su carrera como actor, productor, guionista y director es una de las más consolidadas en Hollywood, y cuenta con millones de seguidores en el mundo entero. Sus relatos han aparecido en medios como The New York Times, Vainity Fair y The New Yorker. Tipos singulares es su primer libro.

A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 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. In his stories, Mr Hanks gracefully reaches that typewriter-worthy level.

What do the New Testament writers actually teach about (1) the poor, (2) women, and (3) sexual minorities? Why do traditional commentaries and introductions so often ignore or treat superficially such burning questions churches grapple with today? Must we seek out specialized monographs to get adequate information and satisfactory answers in each area? At last, in a single volume Tom Hanks brings together the fruit of decades of study, examining each New Testament book in each of these three crucial areas, which often overlap in human experience (Latin American male liberation theologians often forget that the option for the poor may involve solidarity with a lesbian of color who wants to be ordained!). Building on his pioneering study on oppression and poverty in Biblical theology (Orbis 1984; Wipf 2000) and his Anchor Bible Dictionary article on Poverty in the New Testament (which the New York Times review commended for its balance), Hanks analyzes the teaching of each New Testament book regarding the main cause of poverty (oppression) and the variety of liberating Christian responses. Feminist and womanist studies are mined to highlight the presence/absence and role/leadership of women in each New Testament book. The remarkable absence of modern notions of family and family values in the New Testament books is emphasized, along with the prominence of sexual minorities as authors and subjects of the New Testament books. L. William Countryman comments regarding the poor, women and sexual minorities: Tom Hanks has brought these issues to the exegesis of the New Testament in a sustained and orderly fashion. He demonstrates beyond question that most of the New Testament authors were not interested in maintaining the household structures of the ancient Mediterranean and that, indeed, most of the individuals presented in the New Testament documents would not have seemed to be models of 'family values' either in their time or today....The works of Hanks and [Theodore W.] Jennings, with their detailed and careful argumentation, show that excellent work is being done in this vein. However surprising their conclusions may be to casual readers (or offensive to readers protecting what they conceive as orthodoxy), they are, in fact, deeply grounded in attentive scholarly work (Dirt, Greed & Sex, Minneapolis: Fortress, 2007, p. 251-252).