Charles Portis | True grit
Copyright: © 1968 by Charles Portis
There is no knowing what lies in a man's heart. On a trip to buy ponies, Frank Ross is killed by one of his own workers. Tom Chaney shoots him down in the street for a horse, $150 cash, and two Californian gold pieces.Ross's unusually mature and single-minded fourteen-year-old daughter Mattie travels to claim his body, and finds that the authorities are doing nothing to find Chaney. Then she hears of Rooster - a man, she's told, who has grit - and convinces him to join her in a quest into dark, dangerous Indian territory to hunt Chaney down and avenge her father's murder.
"Charles Portis is writer who - if there's any justice - will come to regarded as the author of classics of the order of twentieth-century Mark Twain" - Esquire- Language: English
- Dimensions: 20 x 13 cm
- Pages: 216 pgs
- Cover: softcover
- Year: 2011