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Forrest Gump

Winston Groom

199948 pagesabout 1 hour
1999
first published
  • 1986Doubleday · 228 pages · ENGISBN 9780385231343
  • 1988Berkley Pub. Group · 241 pages · ENGISBN 9780425104781
  • 1994Audioworks · ENGISBN 9780671896812
  • 1999PENGUIN LONGMAN PUBL · 48 pages · ENGISBN 9780582417816
  • 1994Pocket · 248 pages · ENGISBN 9780671894450
  • 2002Washington Square Press · 256 pages · ENGISBN 9780743453257
  • 1999Econo-Clad Books · ENGISBN 9780785755708
  • 2000Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media · ENGISBN 9780606194952

A man named Forest Gump sits at a bus stop and tells everyone about his life. It starts in a doctor's office when he gets leg braces. Then he goes to school where he meets Jenny, and his entire school career and football. Then it goes on to college football. then to Vietnam where he meets bubba. then bubba dies and forest saves a whole platoon. After the war forest gets a medal of honor and runs across America. Then his mom dies. Then he finds jenny again. They have a kid and get married. Then jenny dies. Then the book ends but there is more than this in the town of Greenbow Alabama.

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Character focusSingle lead
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