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True grit

Charles Portis has long been acclaimed as one of America's foremost comic writers.

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Main Author:	Portis, Charles
Other Authors:	Blount, Roy, Jr., 1941-, Tartt, Donna, Mitchard, Jacquelyn, Jennings, Jay
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Overlook Press, 2018.
Subjects:	Teenage girls > Fiction. Fathers > Death > Fiction. United States marshals > Fiction.
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Summary:	Charles Portis has long been acclaimed as one of America's foremost comic writers. Pursuing a murderer who has escaped into Indian Territory, U.S. Marshal Rooster J. Cogburn teams up with a bounty-hunting Texas Ranger and Mattie Ross, a cantankerous young lady who is bent on revenge. U.S. marshal, Rooster Cogburn was hired by Mattie to kill the man who murdered her father and stole the family nest egg. She insists on accompanying Cogburn on his quest.
Item Description:	"50th Anniversary Edition"--cover.
Physical Description:	264 pages
ISBN:	9781468316407 1468316400
Author Notes:	Charles Portis lives in Arkansas, where he was born (1933) and educated. Portis served as a reporter for the New York Herald-Tribune and was also its London bureau chief. His first novel, Norwood, was published in 1966. His other novels are True Grit, The Dog of the South, Masters of Atlantis, and Gringos. True Grit has been made into a movie two times, once in 1969 with John Wayne (who won his only academy award by playing the main character of Rooster Cogburn), and a second time in 2010 with Jeff Bridges as the main character. Mr. Bridges was nominated for the Rooster Cogburn role, but did not win. Charles Portis died on February 17, 2020 in Little Rock, Arkansas at age 86. He had been under hospice care for two years. (Bowker Author Biography)