True Grit: Afterword By Donna Tartt: Afterword By Donna Tartt

Author: Portis Charles

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  • : 9780747572633
  • : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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  • : August 2004
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Description

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.

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With an introduction by Donna Tartt The original novel on which the John Wayne film was based Hailed as an American classic of the order of The Catcher in the Rye by many esteemed writers

Author description

Charles Portis lives in Arkansas, where he was born and educated. He served in the Marine Corps during the Korean War. As a reporter, he wrote for the New York Herald-Tribune, and was also its London bureau chief.