Tom Hanks Orden de los libros (cronológico)

'A proper literary belter' THE TIMES 'Affectionate and endlessly entertaining' RICHARD OSMAN 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 eighty years and culminating in the opening of a film, we meet a cast of characters including a troubled soldier, a young boy with an artistic gift, an inspired and eccentric director, a pompous film star on the rise, a tireless production assistant and countless film crew members who together create Hollywood magic. Funny, touching, and wonderfully thought-provoking, The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece offers an insider's take on the momentous efforts it takes to make a film. At once a reflection on America's past and present, on the world of show business and the real world we all live in.

Estas son las historias que narra Tom Hanks en su primera recopilacion de relatos. Son historias sorprendentes, inteligentes y reconfortantes. 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 pais. Un hombre que ama los bolos juega una partida perfecta y luego otra, y otra, y muchas mas seguidas, hasta que acaba convertido en la nueva celebridad del canal de deportes ESPN, y entonces debe decidir si la fama y la perfeccion combinadas han arruinado lo que mas ama en el mundo. Un excentrico millonario y su fiel ayudante se aventuran por America para buscar oportunidades de negocios y se encuentran con un motel de mala muerte, con un romance y con una pequena dosis de la vida real. Un libro realmente imprescindible para sus millones y millones de admiradores.

In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and finally do something great. In A Hologram for the King, Dave Eggers takes us around the world to show how one man fights to hold himself and his splintering family together in the face of the global economy's gale-force winds. This taut, richly layered, and elegiac novel is a powerful evocation of our contemporary moment -- and a moving story of how we got here. 'Haunting, beautifully shaped and sad . . . Eggers has developed an exceptional gift for opening up the lives of others so as to offer the story of globalism as it develops and, simultaneously, to unfold a much more archetypal tale of struggle and loneliness and drift.' Pico Iyer, The New York Times Book Review 'A comic but deeply affecting tale about one man's travails that also provides a bright, digital snapshot of our times.' Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times A 2012 National Book Award Finalist