Forrest Gump
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Udgiverens beskrivelse
Forrest Gump skildrer sin livshistorie helt tilbage fra sin barndom, henover sine oplevelser både i hans ungdom og hans voksentilværelse. Det omfatter blandt andet Gumps deltagelse i Vietnamkrigen, hans talent for og succes som sportsudøver og hans forhold til sin smukke barndomskærlighed. Alt sammen set igennem Forrest Gumps god-til-kernen syn på tilværelsen.
Winston Groom (f. 1943) er en amerikansk forfatter, mest kendt for sit værk "Forrest Gump" (1994), der blev filmatiseret allerede samme år som bogudgivelsen. Groom har endvidere udgivet en række fagbøger om blandt andet den amerikanske borgerkrig og første verdenskrig. Hans bog "Conversations with the Enemy" var en af finalisterne til at vinde en Pulitzer pris i 1984.
Følger Forrest Gump fra barnsben og senere hen i voksenalderen – den mindre kendte efterfølger (Gump & Co.) tager fat hvor etteren sluttede og følger blandt andet Gumps liv som enlig far.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
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. 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. Like most literary idiots, Forrest Gump is a lot smarter than the people he encounters. He is also no ordinary idiot. 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. 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. While there is much on-target humor here, Groom, author of Better Times Than These, has written better books than this.
