True Grit by Charles Portis
The new Coen brothers' film, starring Matt Damon and Jeff Bridges, in cinemas from February 2011
‘True Grit is the best novel to come my way for a very long timeWhat book has given me greater pleasure in the last five years? Or in the last twenty? I do not know ... What a writer!' * Roald Dahl *
‘Charles Portis is a writer who - if there's any justice - will come to be regarded as the author of classics of the order of a twentieth-century Mark Twain' * Esquire *
‘Portis has made an epic and a legend. Mattie Ross should soon join the pantheon of America's legendary figures such as Kit Carson, Wyatt Earp and Jesse James' * Washington Post *
‘One of those rare sweet delights ... one can recommend to inveterate fiction readers and to those who read only one or two novels a year' * San Francisco Chronicle *
‘Charles Portis is a writer who - if there's any justice - will come to be regarded as the author of classics of the order of a twentieth-century Mark Twain' * Esquire *
‘Portis has made an epic and a legend. Mattie Ross should soon join the pantheon of America's legendary figures such as Kit Carson, Wyatt Earp and Jesse James' * Washington Post *
‘One of those rare sweet delights ... one can recommend to inveterate fiction readers and to those who read only one or two novels a year' * San Francisco Chronicle *
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781408814000 |
| ISBN 10 | 1408814005 |
| Title | True Grit |
| Author | Charles Portis |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2011-01-04 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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