![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() My IQ is 61, which qualifies me, so they say." And off we go, Gump starring as a self-consciously literary half-wit (he's a fan of Lennie and Boo Radley) while Groom makes Statements about America. The narrator is Gump himself, of Mobile, Alabama, 6'6", 242 pounds, and all idiot: "I've been a idiot since I was born. The usually reliable Groom (Better Times Than These, Conversations with the Enemy) turns as gawky and ham-handed as his hero - Forrest Gump, contemporary American idiot - in this stumbling, droopy-drawered attempt at a picaresque novel. O'Rourke Joyously madcap * Publishers Weekly * Poking fun at everything * People * Winston Groom has created the ideal citizen for the modern world - a perfect idiot - P.J. 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. It is not the less honest for being so funny, for bringing the woebegone archangels of our culture and history to judgement. Forrest Gump is line bred out of Voltaire and Huck Finn its humour is wild and coarse, a satire right on the money. ![]()
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