Forrest Gump - Winston Groom
Category: Classic
Narrator: Mark Hammer
Tags: Classic, Contemporary, Adults
Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins Original Publisher: Recorded Books LLC, 1995: Re-issue Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio 2011, The modern classic that inspired the beloved movie starring Tom Hanks., Bein a idiot is no box of chocolates, but at least I aint led no hum-drum life, says Forrest Gump, the lovable, surprisingly savvy hero of this wonderful comic tale, Six foot six, 242 pounds, and possessed of a scant IQ of 70, His early life may seem inauspicious, but when the University of Alabamas football team drafts Forrest and makes him a star, it sets him on an unbelievable path that will transform him from Vietnam hero to world-class Ping-Pong player, from wrestler to entrepreneur., Now, Forrest Gumps telling all - in a madcap, screwball romp through three decades of the American landscape. Its Gumps amazing travelsand youve got to hear them to believe them. He compares battle scars with Lyndon Johnson, discovers the truth about Richard Nixon, and suffers the ups and downs of true love.
