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True Grit is a 1968 novel by Charles Portis that was first published as a 1968 serial within The Saturday Evening Post. The novel is told from the perspective of a woman named Mattie Ross, who recounts the time when she was 14 and sought retribution for the murder of her father by a scoundrel, Tom Chaney.
Nov 5, 2010 · Paperback – November 5, 2010. by Charles Portis (Author), Donna Tartt (Afterword) 4.7 6,597 ratings. See all formats and editions. #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.
True Grit. Charles Portis. 4.17. 60,122 ratings7,370 reviews. In the 1870s, young Mattie Ross learns that her beloved father was gunned down by his former handyman. But even though this gutsy 14-year-old is seeking vengeance, she is smart enough to figure out she can't go alone after a desperado who's holed up in Indian territory.
Chapter 1. Mattie Ross acknowledges that most people don’t believe a fourteen-year-old girl is capable of avenging her father’s death. Nonetheless, this is what she does after her father’s murder. Planning to buy a group of ponies from a man named Stonehill, her father traveled from Little Rock to Fort Smith, Arkansas to make the deal.
Nov 5, 2010 · 4.7 6,424 ratings. See all formats and editions. Book Description. Editorial Reviews. Charles Portis has long been acclaimed as one of America's foremost comic writers. True Grit is his most famous novel--first published in 1968, and the basis for the movie of the same name starring John Wayne.
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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. Filled...
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The #1 New York Times bestselling classic frontier adventure novel, with over two million copies in print 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.
Dec 25, 2020 · Collection. printdisabled; internetarchivebooks. Contributor. Internet Archive. Language. English. 235 pages ; 21 cm. Mattie Ross 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 money.
