$39.84
- Paperback
235 pages
- Release Date
4 November 2010
Summary
True Grit is his most famous novel—first published in 1968, and the basis for the movie of the same name starring John Wayne. It tells the story of Mattie Ross, who is just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shoots her father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robs him of his life, his horse, and $150 in cash money. Mattie leaves home to avenge her father’s blood. With the one-eyed Rooster Cogburn, the meanest available U.S. Marshal, by her side, Matti…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781590204597 |
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| ISBN-10: | 159020459X |
| Author: | Charles Portis, PORTIS CHARLES |
| Publisher: | Harry N. Abrams |
| Imprint: | Overlook Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 235 |
| Release Date: | 4 November 2010 |
| Weight: | 285g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 137mm x 201mm |
| Audience Age: | 17-17 |
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Critics Review
“Charles Portis is an original, indescribable sui generis talent … Rereading Portis is one of the great pure pleasures–both visceral and cerebral–available in modern American literature.”–Ron Rosenbaum “Esquire”
“Charles Portis’s True Grit captures the naive elegance of the American Voice.”– “Jonathan Lethem”
“Charles Portis’s True Grit is a masterpiece.”–Anthony Bourdain “New York Times Book Review”
“How to describe the indescribable? Probably the best description I can give of True Grit is that I’ve never given it to any reader – male or female, of any age or sensibility – who didn’t enjoy it.” –Donna Tartt “New York Times Book Review”
“It’s possible that True Grit is the genuine article–a book so strong that it reads as myth.”–Ed Park “The Believer”
“Skillfully constructed, a comic tour de force.”– “New York Times Book Review”
“The dialogue in True Grit is exquisite.”–David Mamet “The Week”
About The Author
Charles Portis
Charles Portis lives in Arkansas where he was born and educated. He served in the Marine Corps during the Korean War. He was the London bureau chief of the New York Herald-Tribune, for which he also wrote as a reporter. He is the author of Dog of the South, Masters of Atlantis, Gringos, and Norwood.
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