With an Introduction byP.J. O'RourkeTHE WORLD WILL NEVER BE THE SAME ONCEYOU'VE SEEN IT THROUGHTHE EYES OF FORREST GUMPAmerica's most lovable new hero is winning smiles and hearts everywhere these days - in the Paramount motion picture, Forrest Gump, starring Tom Hanks, and in the novel by Winston Groom (available in Black Swan paperback), hailed by critics as one of the funniest books they've ever read.Now the fun continues in this delightful confection of wit and wisdom from the world according to Gump...'ALWAYS BE ABLE TO LOOK BACK AND SAY "AT LEAST I DIDN'TLEAD NO HUMDRUM LIFE"'
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CONTRIBUTORS: Winston Groom
EAN: 9780552143219
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 53 g
HEIGHT: 153 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Transworld Publishers Ltd
DATE PUBLISHED: 1994-10-01
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GENRE: HUMOR / Form / Anecdotes & Quotations, HUMOR / Topic / Celebrity & Popular Culture, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General
WIDTH: 103 cm
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Book Themes:
Film scripts and screenplays, Quotations, proverbs and sayings, Humour
Winston Groom, author of nine books, wrote the acclaimed Vietnam War novel Better Times Than These, the prize-winning As Summers Die, and co-authored Conversations with the Enemy, which was nominated for a 1984 Pulitzer Prize. He is also the author of the No.1 New York Times bestsellers Forrest Gump and Gumpisms: The Wit and Wisdom of Forrest Gump. Mr Groom's Shrouds of Glory, an account of Confederate General John Bell Hood's decisive actions in the last great campaign of the US Civil War, was published in April, 1995. He lives in New York City and Point Clear, Alabama.
