AUTOGRAPHED TOM HANKS BOOK Novel Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece SIGNED

Description: This hardcover book titled "The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece" is a first edition written by Tom Hanks. It is a novel in the fiction narrative type, with a focus on action, drama, film/TV adaptation, comics, historical, and humor genres. The book has 448 pages, measures 9.39 inches in length, 6.51 inches in width, and 1.26 inches in height, with a weight of 1.71 lbs. The book is in its original English language, with a dust jacket and illustrated features. It is intended for young adults and adults, and is signed by the author himself. The book is not ex libris, inscribed, or vintage, and was published in 2023 by Knopf. This is a must-have for fans of Tom Hanks and those interested in the making of major motion pictures. Thanks AI! This is a beautiful example of this book in pristine unread condition. The book itself is perfect the signature is also absolutely perfect and clear and crisp! See the photos for the details, the book in the photos is the exact one that you will receive, no stock photos here! Take a look at the images zoom in for the details, including the signature, and please message me if you have any questions at all, I'm happy to help. Again this is a beautiful example, the book is unread and in perfectly new condition the pages are clean The binding is tight, excellent! Plus on top of the beautiful book of course it is signed by the man himself Mr Tom Hanks! Also included is a bookmark from Tom hanks's organization HANX, which raises funds for the troops of our US military. Again see all the photos for the details and message me if you have any questions. Also a note that this book is from a smoke-free home and smoke-free environment. Shipping is USA only and this will be shipped via USPS Media Mail or USPS Ground Advantage, your choice at checkout. Besides based on the total weight, the actual cost of shipping is also based on distance from me here in NY and is automatically calculated when you are logged into your eBay account. I take very good care in shipping the few items I sell safely and quickly, and I take pride in providing excellent service, as I'm mainly a buyer here who buys random stuff (sometimes too) impulsively on eBay and I know what it's like to have a seller that doesn't pack something well, or doesn't communicate, or waits a week or more to ship something you've purchased. So I try to give the excellent communication and service that I like to receive as a buyer. And while this isn't a job for me, and I don't sell a ton of items, I do take it very seriously and will make sure your item has lots of photos, is described very truthfully and accurately, is packed well, and shipped fast and safely. I'm happy to add signature confirmation, or any other service (at your cost, in most cases) if you have any problems with package delivery at your home or apartment. Please contact me ahead of time when possible, I'll get a cost for it and I'll be happy to set that up for you. Lastly, I'm pretty open to offers, so if it's an option, send one! Or, put it on your watched items list and I'll send you an offer. __________ 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-selling author The Midnight Library, The Humans and Reasons to Stay Alive Part One of this story takes place in 1947. A troubled soldier, returning from the war, meets his talented five-year-old nephew, leaves an indelible impression, and then disappears for twenty-three years. Cut to 1970: The nephew, now drawing underground comic books in Oakland, California, reconnects with his uncle and, remembering the comic book he saw when he was five, draws a new version with his uncle as a World War II fighting hero. Cut to the present day: A commercially successful director discovers the 1970 comic book and decides to turn it into a contemporary superhero movie. Cue the cast: We meet the films extremely difficult male star, his wonderful leading lady, the eccentric writer/director, the producer, the gofer production assistant, and everyone else on both sides of the camera. Bonus material: Interspersed throughout are three comic books that are featured in the storyall created by Tom Hanks himselfincluding the comic book that becomes the official tie-in to this novels "major motion picture masterpiece." Review "The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece is 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 Patchett, best-selling author of These Precious Days "This is a wild, ambitious and exceptionally enjoyable novel. A story about how stories happen, with a swirling kaleidoscope of characters across the best part of a century, and a real beating emotional heart. It has a lot of astute and fascinating things to say about comic books, movies, show business, America and human beings. I loved every page." Matt Haig; author The Midnight Library, The Humans and Reasons to Stay Alive "An extravagant, buoyant, joyfully sprawling book, bursting with affection for its characters, for the intricate lore of the movie business, and for the many ways in which human beings are one another's greatest opportunity." Tana French, award-winning novelist of In The Woods and The Searcher "Do you want to go on an adventure? Who doesn't? This was a joy to read in that certain kind of way that only happens when it was a joy to write. Tom Hanks is such a natural storyteller that everything feels like he's telling this story just for you, at a dinner table, and you don't want the night to end." Fredrik Backman, author of A Man Called Ove With a unique insight and a rare eye for detail, Tom Hanks delivers 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 "Vibrant, jazzy, witty, snazzily written, with a great sense of time and place, this novel-cum-comic book is one of those rare, unique, pieces of fiction. Loved it." Kate Mosse; author of Labyrinth "A thoroughly engaging tale....This is a story about what happens behind the cameras. Hanks is at pains to impress upon us that moviemaking is a circuitous process involving a vast network of people some famous, most not showing up and doing their best. This is most definitely not a novel about the magic of filmmaking; its a novel about the hard work of filmmaking.... a love letter to the industry....The longer you watch Hanks create that glittery surface, the harder it is to look away." Ron Charles, The Washington Post "We all knew he could act, but the publication of Hanks Uncommon Type, his excellent 2017 short-story collection, proved he could write, too. Now hes followed that with a full-length novel, and it is superb. The writing is spot-on, bringing to the novel all the passion Hanks feels about his profession: Making movies is complicated, maddening, highly technical at times, ephemeral and gossamer at others, slow as molasses on a Wednesday but with a gun-to-the-head deadline on a Friday. The whole book is like that: lovingly crafted, a wildly entertaining story beautifully told. If you love movies, youll love this book." David Pitt, Booklist (starred review) About the Author TOM HANKS has won Academy Awards for best actor for Philadelphia and Forrest Gump. He has starred in, among many other films, Big, Sleepless in Seattle, Apollo 13, Saving Private Ryan, The Green Mile, Cast Away, Catch Me If You Can, Captain Phillips, Bridge of Spies, Sully, Toy Story, The Post, and It's a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker. He is also the author of a best-selling collection of stories, Uncommon Type. R. Sikoryak is a cartoonist and an author based in New York City. His illustrations have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. ______ Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American actor and filmmaker. Known for both his comedic and dramatic roles, he is one of the most popular and recognizable film stars worldwide, and is regarded as an American cultural icon. Hanks's films have grossed more than $4.9 billion nationally and $9.96 billion worldwide, making him the fourth-highest-grossing American actor. Hanks made his breakthrough with leading roles in a series of comedies: Splash (1984), The Money Pit (1986), Big (1988) and A League of Their Own (1992). He won two consecutive Academy Awards for Best Actor, playing a gay lawyer suffering from AIDS in Philadelphia (1993) and the title character in Forrest Gump (1994).[5] Hanks collaborated with Steven Spielberg on five films: Saving Private Ryan (1998), Catch Me If You Can (2002), The Terminal (2004), Bridge of Spies (2015) and The Post (2017), as well as the World War II miniseries Band of Brothers (2001), The Pacific (2010) and Masters of the Air (2024). He has also frequently collaborated with directors Ron Howard, Nora Ephron and Robert Zemeckis. Hanks's other films include the romantic comedies Sleepless in Seattle (1993) and You've Got Mail (1998); the dramas Apollo 13 (1995), The Green Mile (1999), Cast Away (2000), Road to Perdition (2002) and Cloud Atlas (2012); and the biographical dramas Charlie Wilson's War (2007), Captain Phillips (2013), Saving Mr. Banks (2013), Sully (2016), A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019), News of the World (2020) and Elvis (2022). He appeared as the title character in the Robert Langdon series and voiced Sheriff Woody in the Toy Story films (19952019). Hanks directed the comedies That Thing You Do! (1996) and Larry Crowne (2011), and acted in both. In 1998, Hanks launched his production company Playtone, which has an exclusive television development deal with HBO. Hanks has won seven Primetime Emmy Awards for his work as a producer of various limited series and television movies, including From the Earth to the Moon (1998), Band of Brothers (2001), John Adams (2008), The Pacific (2009), Game Change (2012) and Olive Kitteridge (2015). He made his Broadway debut in Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy (2013), earning a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play nomination. Among other honors, he has received the AFI Life Achievement Award (2002), the Kennedy Center Honor (2014), the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the French Legion of Honor (both 2016) and the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award (2020).

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