![]() ![]() ![]() “Charles Portis’s True Grit captures the naive elegance of the American Voice. “I’ve always thought Charles Portis had a wonderful talent-original, quirky, exciting.” “The dialogue in True Grit is exquisite.” “Charles Portis’s True Grit is a masterpiece.” copyright 1968,Fourth printing Simon and Schuster publishers, New York. “It’s possible that True Grit is the genuine article-a book so strong that it reads as myth." The novel is told from the perspective of a woman named Mattie Ross, who recounts the time when she was 14 and sought retribution for the murder of her father by a scoundrel, Tom Chaney. Rereading Portis is one of the great pure pleasures-both visceral and cerebral-available in modern American literature.” True Grit is a 1968 novel by Charles Portis that was first published as a 1968 serial in The Saturday Evening Post. ![]() “Charles Portis is an original, indescribable sui generis talent. a beaut narrated in the unforgettable voice of Mattie Ross. “Skillfully constructed, a comic tour de force.” “How to describe the indescribable? Probably the best description I can give of True Grit is that I’ve never given it to any reader - male or female, of any age or sensibility - who didn’t enjoy it.” ![]()
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