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Penguin
November 2010
On Sale: November 5, 2010
Featuring: Rooster Cogburn; Mattie Ross
244 pages
ISBN: 159020459X
EAN: 9781590204597
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Charles Portis has long been acclaimed as one of America's foremost comic writers. True Grit is his most famous novelβfirst published in 1968, and the basis for the movie of the same name starring John Wayne and now the film by the Coen brothers starring Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon. It tells the story of Mattie Ross, who is just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shoots her father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robs him of his life, his horse, and $150 in cash money. Mattie leaves home to avenge her father's blood. With the one-eyed Rooster Cogburn, the meanest available U.S. Marshal, by her side, Mattie pursues the homicide into Indian Territory. True Grit is eccentric, cool, straight, and unflinching, like Mattie herself. From a writer of true cult status, this is an American classic through and through.
More InformationTwo film versions adapted from TRUE GRIT:
 
and Coen Brothers version
 
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