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Mattie Ross, a fourteen-year-old girl from Dardanelle, Arkansas, sets out to avenge her Daddy who was shot to death by a no-good outlaw. Mattie convinces one-eyed Rooster Cogburn, the meanest U.S. marshal in the land, to ride along with her. In True Grit, we have a true American classic, as young Mattie as vital as she is innocent outdickers and outmaneuvers the hard-bitten men of the trail in a legend that will last through the ages.
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Charles Portis lives in Arkansas, where he was born and educated. He served in the Marine Corps during the Korean War, was the London bureau chief of the New York Herald-Tribune, and was a writer for The New Yorker. True Grit is the basis for two movies, the 1969 classic starring John Wayne and the 2010 version starring Academy Award® winner Jeff Bridges and written and directed by the Coen brothers.
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"As entertaining and original as any fiction of recent times." -- St. Louis Dispatch
"Charles Portis is perhaps the most original, indescribable sui generis talent overlooked by literary culture in America." -- Ron Rosenbaum, Esquire
"True Grit is when you are a 14-year-old girl from Yell County, Arkansas, and you've just shot a dangerous outlaw and the gun's recoil has sent you backward into a pit, and you are wedged in the pit and sinking fast into the cave below where bats are brushing against your legs, and you reach out for something to hold on to and find a rotting corpse beside you and it's full of angry rattlers, and then it turns out you didn't kill the outlaw, he's up at the rim of the pit laughing at you, about to shoot you-and you don't lose your nerve. That's True Grit." -- Eliot Fremont-Smith, The New York Times
An instant classic...read it and have the most fun you've had reading a novel in years, maybe decades. -- Newsday
"Charles Portis is perhaps the most original, indescribable sui generis talent overlooked by literary culture in America." -- Ron Rosenbaum, Esquire
"True Grit is when you are a 14-year-old girl from Yell County, Arkansas, and you've just shot a dangerous outlaw and the gun's recoil has sent you backward into a pit, and you are wedged in the pit and sinking fast into the cave below where bats are brushing against your legs, and you reach out for something to hold on to and find a rotting corpse beside you and it's full of angry rattlers, and then it turns out you didn't kill the outlaw, he's up at the rim of the pit laughing at you, about to shoot you-and you don't lose your nerve. That's True Grit." -- Eliot Fremont-Smith, The New York Times
An instant classic...read it and have the most fun you've had reading a novel in years, maybe decades. -- Newsday
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- PublisherG K Hall & Co
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0783883668
- ISBN 13 9780783883663
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages243
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Publisher: G.K. Hall & Co., 1998. First Edition, First Printing (Large Print). Hardcover is in very good condition (Ex-Library, Library pocket on the FFEP, Letters/Numbers written in ink at the binding of the Half-Title Page, Library Stamp on the Title Page with crayon mark, smudged/ markings on the side of the text block, top corners of a few pages are bent, bumped/faded on the top and bottom of the spine, bumped on all four corners, tape is on the top and bottom edges of the front and back covers). Dust jacket is in near-fine condition (soiled, rubbed and edge wear). Brodart protected. 243 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Large Print. Perennial Bestseller. A class American adventure in a classic American landscape. (from front cover). Seller Inventory # 10829
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