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True Grit: The New York Times bestselling that inspired two award-winning films

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There is no knowing what lies in a man’s heart. On a trip to buy ponies, Frank Ross is killed by one of his own workers. Tom Chaney shoots him down in the street for a horse, $150 cash, and two Californian gold pieces. Ross’s unusually mature and single-minded fourteen-year-old daughter Mattie travels to claim his body, and finds that the authorities are doing nothing to find Chaney. Then she hears of Rooster – a man, she’s told, who has grit – and convinces him to join her in a quest into dark, dangerous Indian territory to hunt Chaney down and avenge her father’s murder.

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Weight 0.35 kg
Dimensions 1.5 × 12.8 × 19.6 cm
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Format

Paperback
Language

Pages

224
Publisher

Year Published

2005-1-3
Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

0747572631
About The Author

Charles Portis lives in Arkansas, where he was born and educated. He served in the Marine Corps during the Korean War. As a reporter, he wrote for the New York Herald-Tribune, and was also its London bureau chief.
Review Quote

Charles Portis is perhaps the most original, indescribable sui generis talent overlooked by literary culture in America — Esquire

Comparable to her literary ancestor and fellow southerner, Huckleberry Finn a gripping story made up of insightful digressions — Observer

It is a pleasure to be able to recommend a novel wholeheartedly an instant classic — Newsday

Portis achieves the same blackly comic atmosphere as modern western writers like Annie Proulx and Thomas McGuane — Time Out

The best novel to come my way for a very long time What a writer! — Roald Dahl

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