Gump and Co.

Gump and Co.

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author = Winston Groom
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country = USA
language = English
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publisher = New York Pocket Books
pub_date = 1995
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media_type = Print (hardcover)
pages = 252
isbn = 3453086678
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preceded_by = Forrest Gump (1986)
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"Gump and Co." (or Forrest Gump and Co.) is a 1995 novel by Winston Groom. It is the sequel to his novel "Forrest Gump", which was made into an Academy-award winning film starring Tom Hanks.

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As in the first book, Gump stumbles through important US events in the 1980s and early 1990s. He plays football for the New Orleans Saints, sells encyclopedias door-to-door, works on a pig farm, and helps develop the infamous New Coke. He accidentally crashes the Exxon Valdez, helps destroy the Berlin Wall, and fights in Operation Desert Storm. He meets many celebrities, including Colonel Oliver North, the Ayatollah Khomeini, John Hinckley, Jim Bakker, Ivan Boesky, Ronald Reagan, Saddam Hussein, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and Tom Hanks.

The sequel's storyline keeps to the storyline of the immensely successful 1994 film version of "Forrest Gump", by killing off both Jenny and Forrest's mother, neither of whom died in the novel.

Film adaptation

This book was never made into a movie, supposedly due to Groom's feud with Paramount Pictures over payments for the first movie. On March 7, 2007, CinemaBlend reported that Paramount had settled its feud with Groom, and an already-written screen adaptation of "Gump and Co." could be revived. [ [http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Forrest-Gump-Gets-A-Sequel-4626.html Forrest Gump Gets A Sequel ] ]

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