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Meet Forrest Gump, the lovable, hurculean, and surprisingly savy hero of this remarkable comic odyssey. After accidentally becoming the star of Univerity of Alabama's football team, Forrest goes on to become a Vietnam War hero, a worl-class Ping-Pong player, a villainous wrestler, and a business tycoon -- as he wonders with cildlike wisdome at the insanity all around him. In between misadentures, he manages to compare battle scars with Lyndon Johnson, discover the truth about Richard Nixon, and survive the ups and downs of remaining true to his only love, Jenny, on an extraordinary journey through three decades of the American cultural landscape. Forrest gump has one heck of a story to tell -- and you've got to read it to believe it.....
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Forrest Gump, Winston Groom
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- Released
- 1994
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- Title
- Forrest Gump
- Subtitle
- A Novel
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Winston Groom
- Publisher
- Pocket Books
- Released
- 1994
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 228
- ISBN10
- 0671526065
- ISBN13
- 9780671526061
- Series
- Forrest Gump
- Tags
- Fiction, Humor, Love, Classics, USA, American Literature, Society, Adapted for Film, Satire, Bestsellers, People with Disabilities, 1960s, Classicism, Picaresque Novels
- First published
- 1986
- Original title
- Forrest Gump
- Rating
- 3.9 out of 5
- Description
- Meet Forrest Gump, the lovable, hurculean, and surprisingly savy hero of this remarkable comic odyssey. After accidentally becoming the star of Univerity of Alabama's football team, Forrest goes on to become a Vietnam War hero, a worl-class Ping-Pong player, a villainous wrestler, and a business tycoon -- as he wonders with cildlike wisdome at the insanity all around him. In between misadentures, he manages to compare battle scars with Lyndon Johnson, discover the truth about Richard Nixon, and survive the ups and downs of remaining true to his only love, Jenny, on an extraordinary journey through three decades of the American cultural landscape. Forrest gump has one heck of a story to tell -- and you've got to read it to believe it.....