The classic western novel behind the Oscar-nominated film by the Coen brothers 'True Grit is the best novel to come my way for a very long time.' ROALD DAHL '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 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.
| ISBN: | 9781408814000 |
| Publication date: | 4th January 2011 |
| Author: | Charles Portis |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 215 pages |
| Genres: |
Adventure fiction: Westerns Narrative theme: Coming of age Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss Classic fiction: general and literary |
The classic western novel behind the Oscar-nominated film by the Coen brothers 'True Grit is the best novel to come my way for a very long time.' ROALD DAHL '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 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.
True Grit features in the following genres: Adventure fiction: Westerns, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Classic fiction: general and literary
True Grit is available in Paperback
True Grit was written by Charles Portis and published by Bloomsbury an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
True Grit has 215 pages