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True Grit

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The classic western novel behind the Oscar-nominated film by the Coen brothers '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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ISBN: 9781408814000
Publication date: 4th January 2011
Author: Charles Portis
Publisher: Bloomsbury an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 215 pages
Genres: Adventure fiction: Westerns
Narrative theme: Coming of age
Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss
Classic fiction: general and literary