Forrest is a young kind-hearted man from Alabama in the USA. by Winston Groom RELEASE DATE: March 7, 1986. Setting: All over the state of Alabama, Vietnam, and across America. This is a true, wonderful and funny story about Forrest Gump. While there is much on-target humor here, Groom, author of Better Times Than These, has written better books than this. Forrest Gump Book Report Time Period: 1950s to early 1980s. Forrest Gump Spiral-bound 3,436 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 11.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 12. All this takes place after Gump has met Lyndon Johnson and saved Chairman Mao from drowning, which is to say that this is a very broad satire. Instead, he is a mathematical idiot savant, capable of outperforming NASA's on-board computers, which is why Gump ends up on a space mission with an ape and the first woman astronauta mission that ends in the forests of New Guinea where Gump meets a Yale-tutored cannibal.

Forrest Gump: A Novel Forrest Gump: A Novel: Groom, Winston: 9781568950877: : Books Skip to main content. Forrest Gump is the protagonist, a mentally and physically challenged young man, whose mother raised him to believe that he is no different than anyone else. Like most literary idiots, Forrest Gump is a lot smarter than the people he encounters. Forrest Gump: A Novel Groom, Winston on. Groom's picaresque tale is told by an idiot, the Gump of the title, and follows his outrageous life from early stardom for Bear Bryant's Crimson Tide, through a tour in Vietnam and across the broad canvas of America during the '70s and '80s. There is a joyously madcap feeling to the first half of this unusual novel, but then the absurdity gathers its own speed and begins to run dangerously amok.

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