
Forrest’s remarkable, touching, and utterly comic odyssey has just begun: in store for him is an explosive attempt at hog farming his own dubious recipe for adding life to New Coke an encounter with Oliver North of the Iran-Contra affair and a chance yet again to unwittingly twist the nose of history. But fate turns fickle again, and he’s soon out on the road selling phony encyclopedias and trying to raise his son, little Forrest, who needs his father more than ever. has gone bust and now Forrest is flat broke, sweeping floors in a New Orleans strip joint, when a fresh opportunity to play championship football puts him back in the limelight - and in the money. It was written to chronicle Forrests life throughout the 1980s. It is the sequel to his 1986 novel Forrest Gump and the Academy Award-winning 1994 film of the same name starring Tom Hanks. She tells me she’s always rooting for me. Gump & Co Spoiler I throughly enjoyed Forest Gump as a movie when growing up. (or Forrest Gump and Co.) is a 1995 novel by Winston Groom.

Whenever I really get stumped, I go visit Jenny’s grave. Now he returns in the long-awaited sequel to the book hailed by Larry King as “the funniest novel I have ever read.” A little older, and wiser in his unique way, Forrest is still running - this time straight into the age of greed and instant gratification known as the 1980s. Forrest Gump captured our hearts in the #1 New York Times bestselling novel Forrest Gump, and in the blockbuster film, winner of six Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Actor.
