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True Grit, Film Tie-In: With an Afterword by Donna Tartt - Softcover

Portis, Charles

 
9781590204597: True Grit, Film Tie-In: With an Afterword by Donna Tartt
Softcover
ISBN 10: 159020459X ISBN 13: 9781590204597
Verlag: Overlook Press, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

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. It 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 money. 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 cult status, this is an American classic through and through. This new edition, with a smart new package and an afterword by acclaimed author Donna Tartt, will bring this masterpiece to an even broader audience.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Charles Portis (1933-2020) lived most of his life in Arkansas, where he was born and raised. He was a graduate of the University of Arkansas, which in 2018 awarded him an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters. 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. He is the author of four other novels, also available from the Overlook Press: Norwood, The Dog of the South, Masters of Atlantis, and Gringos. A selection of his writing has been collected in Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany.

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Verlag
Overlook Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
159020459X
ISBN 13 
9781590204597
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
235
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