![]() ![]() That's what I did and whenever you're making a movie of a book, it's wonderful because you've got so much more insight into the characters and the story that way.'"-Jeff Bridges in USA Weekend, Charles Portis is an original, indescribable sui generis talent. Charles Portis got a real Mark Twain feeling, the cynicism and the humor."-John Wayne "' wanted to really make a version of the book by Charles Portis, and that was the first big piece of direction that was given to me by those guys: Don't study the movie, study the book. 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 "Charles Portis details the savagery of the 1870s frontier through an astonishing narrative voice: that of the 14-year-old Mattie Ross, a flinty, skeptical, Bible-thumping scourge"- Wall Street Journal "I loved that book. Soon, they'll no longer have him to themselves." - Rolling Stone Magazine "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 naïve elegance of the American voice."- Jonathan Lethem "An instant classic. I tried to buy the book myself.² - John Wayne, "Tom Wolfe, who worked with Portis as a reporter at the New York Herald-Tribune in the early 1960s called him 'the original laconic cutup.' A generation of novelists since then have simply regarded him as a writers' writer and have made his name a sort of secret password. Charles Portis got a real Mark Twain feeling, the cynicism and the humor. Soon, they¹ll no longer have him to themselves." Rolling StoneMagazine ☺n epic and a legend.² - The Washington Post ³Like Mark Twain¹s Huckleberry Finnand Thomas Berger¹s Little Big Man, Charles Portis¹s True Gritcaptures the naïve elegance of the American voice.² - Jonathan Lethem ☺n instant classicŠ.Read it and have the most fun you¹ve had reading a novel in years, maybe decades.² - Newsday ³Skillfully constructed, a comic tour de force.² - The New York Times Book Review ☼harles Portis details the savagery of the 1870s frontier through an astonishing narrative voice: that of the 14-year- old Mattie Ross, a flinty, skeptical, Bible-thumping scourge² - Wall Street Journal ³I loved that book. Portis has crazy-cool literary swagger., "Tom Wolfe, who worked with Portis as a reporter at the New York Herald-Tribune in the early 1960s called him ³the original laconic cutup.² A generation of novelists since then have simply regarded him as a writers¹ writer and have made his name a sort of secret password. a beaut narrated in the unforgettable voice of Mattie Ross. ![]() This edition includes an afterword by bestselling author Donna Tartt ( The Secret History and The Goldfinch ) and a reading group guide. For fans of taut, funny storytelling, it will be a joy to experience in its original form. For fans of either the John Wayne classic or the more recent Coen brothers' movie, it's a chance to relive the story of Mattie and Rooster and experience their story as it was originally told. ![]() ![]() Not just a classic Western, but an undeniable classic of American literature as eccentric, cool, funny, and unflinching as Mattie Ross herself. Filled with an unwavering urge to avenge her father's blood, Mattie finds and, after some tenacious finagling, enlists one-eyed Rooster Cogburn, the meanest available US Marshal, as her partner in pursuit, and they head off into Indian Territory after the killer. True Grit tells the story of Mattie Ross, who is just fourteen when the coward Tom Chaney shoots her father in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robs him of his life, his horse, and $150 cash. This story of danger and adventure in the old west became the basis for two award-winning films, the first starring John Wayne, in his only Oscar-winning role, as Marshall Rooster Cogburn, and the widely praised remake by the Coen brothers, starring Jeff Bridges. True Grit, his most famous novel, was first published in 1968, and has garnered critical acclaim as well as enthusiastic praise from countless passionate fans for more than fifty years. #1 New York Times bestseller "An epic and a legend" - Washington Post "Quite simply, an American masterpiece." - Boston Globe "The dialogue in True Grit is exquisite." -David Mamet "Charles Portis had a wonderful talent-original, quirky, exciting." -Larry McMurtry Charles Portis has long been acclaimed as one of America's most enduring and incomparable literary voices, and his novels have left an indelible mark on the American canon. ![]()
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