Forrest's remarkable, touching, and utterly comic odyssey has just begun: in store for him is an explosive attempt at hog farming his own dubious recipe for adding life to New Coke an encounter with Oliver North of the Iran-Contra affair and a chance yet again to unwittingly twist the nose of history. But fate turns fickle again, and he's soon out on the road selling phony encyclopedias and trying to raise his son, little Forrest, who needs his father more than ever. Struggling to make a life for his young son when the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company takes a dive.

In addition to Forrest Gump and Gump & Co., Grooms novels include Better. Now, Forrest Gumps telling all - in a madcap, screwball romp through three decades of the. He compares battle scars with Lyndon Johnson, discovers the truth about Richard Nixon, and suffers the ups and downs of true love. Winston Groom, American novelist and the mastermind behind Forrest Gump, has passed away at the age of 77 in his Fairhope, Alabama home, it has been reported. has gone bust and now Forrest is flat broke, sweeping floors in a New Orleans strip joint, when a fresh opportunity to play championship football puts him back in the limelight - and in the money. Winston Groom was the author more than twelve books, including A Storm in. He flunks out - and goes on to be a Vietnam war hero, a world-class Ping-Pong player, a wrestler, and a business tycoon. She tells me she's always rooting for me. Whenever I really get stumped, I go visit Jenny's grave. Now he returns in the long-awaited sequel to the book hailed by Larry King as 'the funniest novel I have ever read.' A little older, and wiser in his unique way, Forrest is still running - this time straight into the age of greed and instant gratification known as the 1980s.

Forrest Gump captured our hearts in the #1 New York Times bestselling novel Forrest Gump, and in the blockbuster film, winner of six Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Actor.

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