by Charles Portis · Bloomsbury Paperbacks · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781408814000
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«True Grit» is the Western novel by Charles Portis, published by Bloomsbury Paperbacks in paperback (215 pages, in English).
Mattie Ross, a fourteen-year-old girl, decides to avenge the death of her father, Frank Ross, murdered in cold blood by Tom Chaney. To do so, she hires the one-eyed federal marshal Rooster Cogburn, and together they venture into Indian territory pursuing the killer.
The novel was originally published in 1968; this 2011 Bloomsbury Paperbacks edition includes an introduction by Donna Tartt.
For readers of Westerns and classic adventure novels, and for those who want to discover the work that inspired the Coen brothers' movie.
Charles McColl Portis was an American author best known for his novels Norwood (1966) and the classic Western True Grit (1968). Both Norwood and True Grit were adapted as films, released in 1970 and 1969, respectively. True Grit also inspired a film sequel and a made-for-TV movie sequel. The second film adaptation of True Grit was released in 2010.
