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True Grit

Autor Charles Portis
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 oct 2012 – vârsta de la 18 ani
True Grit tells the story of Mattie Ross, who is just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shoots her father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robs him of his life, his horse, and $150 in cash. Mattie leaves home to avenge her father s blood. With the one-eyed Rooster Cogburn, the meanest available U.S. Marshal, by her side, Mattie pursues the homicide into Indian Territory. True Grit is eccentric, cool, straight, and unflinching, like Mattie herself. From a writer of true status, this is an American classic through and through. This mass-market edition includes an afterword by award-winning Donna Tartt, author ofThe Little Friend and The Secret History."
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781468306293
ISBN-10: 1468306294
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 110 x 188 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Editura: Overlook Press

Notă biografică

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."

Recenzii

"A wonderful book.... That's really what the Coens are referencing, and that's what I'm doing as well"
--Jeff Bridges

"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 naive elegance of the American voice."
--Jonathan Lethem

"An instant classic....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

"I loved that book. Charles Portis got a real Mark Twain feeling, the cynicism and the humor. I tried to buy the book myself."
--John Wayne

"Mattie Ross is an authentic heroine--lean, mean, articulate and downright inspirational"
--"The Washington Times"--.

Descriere

Charles Portis has long been acclaimed as one of America's foremost writers. "True Grit" is the basis for two movies, the 1969 classic starring John Wayne and the Academy Award(R) winning 2010 version starring Jeff Bridges and written and directed by the Coen brothers.
"True Grit" tells the story of Mattie Ross, who is just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shoots her father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robs him of his life, his horse, and $150 in cash. Mattie leaves home to avenge her father's blood. With the one-eyed Rooster Cogburn, the meanest available U.S. Marshal, by her side, Mattie pursues the homicide into Indian Territory. "True Grit" is eccentric, cool, straight, and unflinching, like Mattie herself. From a writer of true status, this is an American classic through and through.
This mass-market edition includes an afterword by award-winning Donna Tartt, author of "The Little Friend" and "The Secret History."

Caracteristici

Hailed as an American classic of the order of The Catcher in the Rye by many esteemed writers