Winston Groom Bücher

Von seiner Mutter rückhaltlos unterstützt, macht sich der geistig ein wenig zurückgebliebene Forrest Gump in die Welt auf. Er bringt Elvis seinen Tanzstil bei, findet in der jungen Jenny eine echte Freundin, wird aufgrund seines Laufvermögens ein Football-Star, steht im Vietnamkrieg seinen Mann, rettet seinen Vorgesetzten Dan Taylor vor dem sicheren Tod und wird schließlich im Shrimps-Business zum Millionär. Doch all die Zeit kann er seine große Liebe Jenny nicht vergessen.

Seit Generationen sind die Holts Herren von Bienville, Louisiana. Ihnen gehört das Land, ihr Wort ist Gesetz. Doch dann werden reiche Ölfunde in dem kleinen verschlafenen Städtchen entdeckt - ausgerechnet auf einem Stückchen Land, das den Holts nicht mehr gehört. Der clevere und mutige Anwalt Willie Croft ist der einzige, der es wagt, die Rechte der armen schwarzen Pächtersfamilie vor Gericht zu vertreten: Ein schier aussichtsloser Kampf, der in einem aufsehenerregenden Prozeß entschieden wird.

Das Leben ist nicht leicht für Forrest Gump: sein Bubba Gump Shrimp & Co. ist bankrott. Jenny ist tot, und sein Sohn, der kleine Forrest, ist gar nicht begeistert von seinem Daddy, der sich dauernd in Schwierigkeiten bringt. Oder in den Nahen Osten. ZUr Wall Street. Auf einen Ölkreuzer. Einen christlichen Vergnügungspark. Und, und, und...

In this captivating narrative, Winston Groom explores the lives of founding fathers Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams, highlighting their contrasting personalities and complex relationships. He delves into their roles in establishing the United States, drawing on extensive historical sources to narrate this pivotal moment in history.

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.

Winston Groom tells the complex story of how Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin aligned to win World War II.

"When the Revolutionary War ended in victory, there remained the stupendous problem of how to establish a workable democratic government in the vast, newly independent country. Three key Founding Fathers played significant roles: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander Hamilton. Their lives and policies could not have been more different; their relationships with each other were complex and often rife with animosity. And yet these three men led the charge-two of them creating and signing the Declaration of Independence, and the third establishing a national treasury and the earliest delineation of a Republican party. They managed to shoulder the heavy mantle of creating the United States of America, putting aside their differences to make a great country, once and always. Drawing on extensive correspondence, epic tales of war, and rich histories of their day-to-day interactions, Winston Groom shares the remarkable story of the beginnings of our great nation."--