True Grit

Name: True Grit
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.24 (79 reviews)
Author: Charles Portis
ISBN: 9781428193772

Author: Charles Portis

Narrator: Donna Tartt

Unabridged: 6 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 06/07/2006

Categories: Fiction, Western

Synopsis

Mattie Ross, a fourteen-year-old girl from Dardanelle, Arkansas, sets out to avenge her Daddy who was shot to death by a no-good outlaw. Mattie convinces one-eyed "Rooster" Cogburn, the meanest U.S. marshal in the land, to ride along with her. In True Grit, we have a true American classic, as young Mattie -- as vital as she is innocent -- outdickers and outmaneuvers the hard-bitten men of the trail in a legend that will last through the ages.

About Charles Portis

Charles Portis (1933–2020) was an American author best known for his classic Western True Grit and the novel Norwood, both of which were made into major motion pictures. He served in the US Marine Corps during the Korean War and then attended the University of Arkansas. As a reporter, he wrote for the New York Herald Tribune and was also its London bureau chief. His first novel, Norwood, was published in 1966 and True Grit in 1968. His other novels include Masters of Atlantis, The Dog of the South, and Gringos.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul

Revived review R.I.P. Charles Portis 1933-2020 creator of Mattie Ross, who will live forever ******* Finding a novel which you can recommend to everybody is really not easy. Look at these totally five-star novels : Lolita? nah, it’s about a paedophile Ulysses? absolutely not, too hard, and no plot Moby Dic......more

Goodreads review by karen

this book is wonderful in a lot of ways. the last fifty or so pages alone are intense and scary and my mouth did that thing where it just falls open and makes me look totally doofy but i couldn't care because i was frantically reading to find out what would happen. that is some seriously good writin......more