True Grit

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Charles Portis: True Grit (1969, Penguin Publishing Group)

English language

Published Nov. 9, 1969 by Penguin Publishing Group.

ISBN:
978-0-451-11607-9
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There is no knowing what lies in a mans 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. Rosss 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 is 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.

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Subjects

  • Fiction, westerns
  • Fiction, humorous, general