True Grit

Author(s): Charles Portis

Literary Fiction

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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The film, starring Matt Damon and Jeff Bridges, is released in the US in December 2010. UK date 11th February 2011. The original novel on which the John Wayne film was based Hailed as an American classic of the order of The Catcher in the Rye by many esteemed writers. With an introduction by Donna Tartt

'True Grit is the best novel to come my way for a very long time. What book has given me greater pleasure in the last five years? Or in the last twenty? I do not know ... What a writer!' Roald Dahl 'Charles Portis is a writer who - if there's any justice - will come to be regarded as the author of classics of the order of a twentieth-century Mark Twain' Esquire 'Portis has made an epic and a legend. Mattie Ross should soon join the pantheon of America's legendary figures such as Kit Carson, Wyatt Earp and Jesse James' Washington Post 'One of those rare sweet delights ... one can recommend to inveterate fiction readers and to those who read only one or two novels a year' San Francisco Chronicle

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.

General Fields

  • : 9781408814000
  • : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • : 0.165
  • : January 2011
  • : 198mm X 129mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : January 2011
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Charles Portis
  • : Paperback
  • : Film Tie-in ed
  • : 813.54
  • : 224