True Grit: A Novel

Author: Portis, CharlesBrand: Abrams BooksEdition: ReprintNumber Of Pages: 240Details: A #1 New York Times bestseller, Charles Portis’s True Grit is “an epic and a legend” (Washington Post), a story of danger and adventure in the Old West—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. “Quite simply, an American masterpiece.” —Boston Globe “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. 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 50 years. True Grit tells the story of Mattie Ross, who is just 14