Forrest Gump

Forrest Gump is line bred out of Voltaire and Huck Finn; its humour is wild and coarse, a satire right on the money. It is not the less honest for being so funny, for bringing the woebegone archangels of our culture and history to judgement. Anyone who doesn’t read this book deserves to spend the winter in North Dakota – Jim Harrison
A superbly controlled satire * The Washington Post *
Rollicking, bawdy… A good time… Poking fun at everything * People *
Winston Groom has created the ideal citizen for the modern world - a perfect idiot – P.J. O’Rourke
Joyously madcap * Publishers Weekly *
Part Candide, part Huck Finn and a whole lot of Andy Griffith, [Gump] makes his case in a voice all his own * Los Angeles Times *
Has many pleasures to offer * New York Times *

Winston Groom 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 was also the author of the No.1 New York Times bestsellers Forrest Gump and Gumpisms- The Wit and Wisdom of Forrest Gump. Winston Groom lived in New York City and Point Clear, Alabama. He died in September 2020.

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