Cover of Charles Portis, Donna Tartt (AFT): True Grit

Charles Portis, Donna Tartt (AFT) True Grit

Price for Eshop: 319 Kč (€ 12.8)

VAT 0% included

New

English

Expected delivery time 14-30 days

Book information

Penguin Group USA

USA

2010

MTI REP

Paperback

235

Standard

248349

978-1-59020-459-7

1-59020-459-X

Teenage girls; Fiction.

Annotation

True Grit is a 1968 novel by Charles Portis that was first published as a 1968 serial in The Saturday Evening Post. The novel is told from the perspective of a woman named Mattie Ross who recounts the time when she was 14 years old and sought retribution for the murder of her father by a scoundrel named Tom Chaney. It is considered by many critics [who?] to be "one of the great American novels". In 1969 it was adapted for the screen as a Western film True Grit starring John Wayne as U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn (a role that won John Wayne Best Actor at the Academy Awards) and Kim Darby as Mattie Ross. Wayne would reprise the role in Rooster Cogburn (1975) with an original screenplay. The sequel was not well-received and the plot was considered a needless reworking of the plot of True Grit. In 2010, another film adaptation was released.

Ask question

You can ask us about this book and we'll send an answer to your e-mail.

Write new comment