Name: True Grit
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Author: Portis, Charles ; Tartt, Donna
ISBN: 9781590204597

Type

Physical Book

Author

Charles Portis

Epilogue by

Donna Tartt

Publisher

Harry N. Abrams

Year

2010

Language

English

Pages

240

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.1 x 13.5 x 1.8 cm

Weight

0.23 kg.

ISBN

159020459X

ISBN13

9781590204597

Synopsis "True Grit"

A #1 New York Times bestseller, Charles Portis's True Grit is "an epic and a legend" (Washington Post), a story of danger and adventure in the Old West--the basis for two award-winning films, the first starring John Wayne in his only Oscar-winning role, as Marshall Rooster Cogburn, and the widely praised remake by the Coen brothers, starring Jeff Bridges. "Quite simply, an American masterpiece." --Boston Globe "Charles Portis had a wonderful talent--original, quirky, exciting." --Larry McMurtry Charles Portis has long been acclaimed as one of America's most enduring and incomparable literary voices, and his novels have left an indelible mark on the American canon. True Grit, his most famous novel, was first published in 1968, and has garnered critical acclaim as well as enthusiastic praise from countless passionate fans for more than 50 years. True Grit tells the story of Mattie Ross, who is just 14 when the coward Tom Chaney shoots her father in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robs him of his life, his horse, and $150 in cash. Filled with an unwavering urge to avenge her father's blood, Mattie finds and, after some tenacious finagling, enlists one-eyed Rooster Cogburn, the meanest available US Marshal, as her partner in pursuit, and they head off into Indian Territory after the killer. True Grit is essential reading. Not just a classic Western, but an undeniable classic of American literature as eccentric, cool, funny, and unflinching as Mattie Ross herself. For fans of either the John Wayne classic or the Coen brothers' movie, it's a chance to relive the story of Mattie and Rooster and experience their story as it was originally told. For fans of taut, funny storytelling, it will be a joy to experience in its original form. This edition includes an afterword by bestselling author Donna Tartt (The Secret History and The Goldfinch) and a reading group guide.

Donna Tartt

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Donna Tartt was born in 1963 in Greenwood, Mississippi, and was educated at Benington College and the University of Mississippi. A voracious reader, she is fluent in Latin, Greek, and French. She can quote from memory Saint Thomas, Plato, Buddha, Dante, Proust, Poe, Salinger, and her greatest idol, T. S. Eliot.

In 1992, she made her debut with The Secret (Lumen, 2014), unanimously celebrated by critics, followed by A Children's Game (Lumen, 2014) and the acclaimed The Goldfinch (Lumen, 2014), winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2013 and the Pulitzer Prize for Best Fiction in 2014. She has also written four short stories and three non-fiction works.

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Romina Cifuentes Silva Tuesday, March 05, 2013
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Lo recomiendo totalmente, e incluso superó las expectativas que tenía de él. Realmente, merece muchísimo la pena.
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