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ŻYCIE JEST JAK PUDEŁKO CZEKOLADEK – NIGDY NIE WIESZ, CO CI SIĘ TRAFI... Poznajcie Forresta Gumpa, sympatycznego i zaskakująco łebskiego bohatera tej nadzwyczajnej odysei komicznej. Forrest najpierw – dość przypadkowo – zostaje gwiazdą drużyny futbolowej Uniwersytetu Alabama, później jedzie do Wietnamu, gdzie staje się bohaterem wojennym, robi też karierę jako światowej klasy pingpongista i zapaśnik oraz potentat handlowy. W samym środku swoich przygód porównuje wojenne blizny z Lyndonem Johnsonem, odkrywa prawdę o Richardzie Nixonie oraz przeżywa wzloty i upadki, pozostając wierny swej jedynej i prawdziwej miłości – Jenny. Jednocześnie przez całe swoje życie z dziecięcą mądrością i nieustannym zdziwieniem nie przestaje się przyglądać otaczającym go ludziom. W powieści obserwujemy niezwykłą podróż przez trzy dekady kulturowego krajobrazu Ameryki. Forrest Gump ma do opowiedzenia cholernie dobrą historię – by w nią uwierzyć, trzeba ją po prostu przeczytać. FENOMENALNA POWIEŚĆ. SŁYNNY FILM.

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.

"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."--

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

Long fascinated with the Mexican Revolution and the vicious border wars of the early twentieth century, Winston Groom brings to life this period of history in a saga of heroism, injustice and love. El Paso pits the legendary outlaw and revolutionary Pancho Villa, against a thrill-seeking railway tycoon known as the Colonel whose fading fortune is tied up in a colossal ranch in Chihuahua. When Villa kidnaps the Colonel's grandchildren in the midst of a cattle drive and absconds into the Sierra Madre, the patriarch and his adopted son head to El Paso, looking for a group of cowboys brave enough to hunt the Generalissimo down. Replete with gunfights, daring escapes and an unforgettable bullfight, El Paso, with its blend of history and legend, is an indelible portrait of the American Southwest in the waning days of the frontier.

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.

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