num_pages: 228
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.....
language: English
title: Forrest Gump
titlecomplete: Forrest Gump
characters: Forrest Gump Jnr, Lieutenant Dan Taylor, Forrest Gump, Jenny Curran
genres: Classics, Drama, Adventure, Historical, Humor, Media Tie In, Novels, Historical Fiction, Contemporary, Fiction
ratings_count: 67285
places: The United States of America
series: Forrest Gump
publisher: Pocket Books