Charles Portis

True Grit

The New York Times bestselling that inspired two award-winning films

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Produktbeschreibung

The classic western novel behind the Oscar-nominated film by the Coen brothers

FEATURING AN INTRODUCTION BY DONNA TARTT

'True Grit is the best novel to come my way for a very long time.' ROALD DAHL
'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

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 32490
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Januar 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 130mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 160g
• ISBN-13: 9780747572633
• ISBN-10: 0747572631
• Artikelnr.: 13491882

Autorenporträt

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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'True Grit is the best novel to come my way for a very long time. What 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