True Grit - Softcover

Portis, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1468306294 ISBN 13: 9781468306293

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, 2012

Synopsis

True Grit 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. Mattie leaves home to avenge her father's blood. With the one-eyed Rooster Cogburn, the meanest available U.S. Marshal, by her side, Mattie pursues the homicide into Indian Territory. True Grit is eccentric, cool, straight, and unflinching, like Mattie herself. From a writer of true status, this is an American classic through and through. This mass-market edition includes an afterword by award-winning Donna Tartt, author of The Little Friend and The Secret History.

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Review:

"A wonderful book.... That's really what the Coens are referencing, and that's what I'm doing as well"
--Jeff Bridges
"An epic and a legend."
--"The Washington Post"
"Like Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn and Thomas Berger's Little Big Man, Charles Portis's True Grit captures the naIve elegance of the American voice."
--Jonathan Lethem
"An instant classic....Read it and have the most fun you've had reading a novel in years, maybe decades." --"Newsday"
"Skillfully constructed, a comic tour de force." --"The New York Times" Book Review
"I loved that book. Charles Portis got a real Mark Twain feeling, the cynicism and the humor. I tried to buy the book myself."
--John Wayne
"Mattie Ross is an authentic heroine--lean, mean, articulate and downright inspirational"
--"The Washington Times"

A wonderful book.... That s really what the Coens are referencing, and that s what I m doing as well
Jeff Bridges
An epic and a legend.
"The Washington Post"
Like Mark Twain s Huckleberry Finn and Thomas Berger s Little Big Man, Charles Portis s True Grit captures the naive elegance of the American voice.
Jonathan Lethem
An instant classic .Read it and have the most fun you ve had reading a novel in years, maybe decades. "Newsday"
Skillfully constructed, a comic tour de force. "The New York Times" Book Review
I loved that book. Charles Portis got a real Mark Twain feeling, the cynicism and the humor. I tried to buy the book myself.
John Wayne
Mattie Ross is an authentic heroine lean, mean, articulate and downright inspirational
"The Washington Times""

Book Description:

The new Coen brothers' film, starring Matt Damon and Jeff Bridges, in cinemas from February 2011

About this edition

• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1468306294
• ISBN 13: 9781468306293
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272