True Grit
Autor Charles Portis Donna Tartten Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 oct 2010 – vârsta de la 18 ani
Charles Portis has long been acclaimed as one of America's foremost comic writers. True Grit is his most famous novel--first published in 1968, and the basis for the movie of the same name starring John Wayne. It tells the story of Mattie Ross, who is just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shoots her father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robs him of his life, his horse, and $150 in cash money. Mattie leaves home to avenge her father's blood. With the one-eyed Rooster Cogburn, the meanest available U.S. Marshal, by her side, Mattie pursues the homicide into Indian Territory.
True Grit is eccentric, cool, straight, and unflinching, like Mattie herself. From a writer of true cult status, this is an American classic through and through. This new edition, with a smart new package and an afterword by acclaimed author Donna Tartt, will bring this masterpiece to an even broader audience.
True Grit is eccentric, cool, straight, and unflinching, like Mattie herself. From a writer of true cult status, this is an American classic through and through. This new edition, with a smart new package and an afterword by acclaimed author Donna Tartt, will bring this masterpiece to an even broader audience.
| Toate formatele și edițiile | Preț | Express |
|---|---|---|
| Paperback (3) | 47.22 lei 3-5 săpt. | +22.25 lei 10-14 zile |
| Bloomsbury Publishing – 2 ian 2005 | 47.22 lei 3-5 săpt. | +22.25 lei 10-14 zile |
| Overlook Press – 16 mai 2016 | 69.33 lei 3-5 săpt. | +34.11 lei 10-14 zile |
| Penguin Books – 31 oct 2010 | 90.28 lei 3-5 săpt. |
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781590204597
ISBN-10: 159020459X
Pagini: 235
Dimensiuni: 137 x 201 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
ISBN-10: 159020459X
Pagini: 235
Dimensiuni: 137 x 201 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
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Recenzii
“Tom Wolfe, who worked with Portis as a reporter at the New York Herald-Tribune in the early 1960s called him ¦the original laconic cutup.¦ A generation of novelists since then have simply regarded him as a writers¦ writer and have made his name a sort of secret password. Soon, they¦ll no longer have him to themselves.” —Rolling Stone Magazine
¦An epic and a legend.¦ -- The Washington Post
¦Like Mark Twain¦s Huckleberry Finn and Thomas Berger¦s Little Big Man, Charles Portis¦s True Grit captures the nanve elegance of the American voice.¦ -- Jonathan Lethem
¦An instant classicè.Read it and have the most fun you¦ve had reading a novel in years, maybe decades.¦ -- Newsday
¦Skillfully constructed, a comic tour de force.¦ -- The New York Times Book Review
¦Charles Portis details the savagery of the 1870s frontier through an astonishing narrative voice: that of the 14-year- old Mattie Ross, a flinty, skeptical, Bible-thumping scourge¦ -- Wall Street Journal
¦I loved that book. Charles Portis got a real Mark Twain feeling, the cynicism and the humor. I tried to buy the book myself.¦ -- John Wayne
¦An epic and a legend.¦ -- The Washington Post
¦Like Mark Twain¦s Huckleberry Finn and Thomas Berger¦s Little Big Man, Charles Portis¦s True Grit captures the nanve elegance of the American voice.¦ -- Jonathan Lethem
¦An instant classicè.Read it and have the most fun you¦ve had reading a novel in years, maybe decades.¦ -- Newsday
¦Skillfully constructed, a comic tour de force.¦ -- The New York Times Book Review
¦Charles Portis details the savagery of the 1870s frontier through an astonishing narrative voice: that of the 14-year- old Mattie Ross, a flinty, skeptical, Bible-thumping scourge¦ -- Wall Street Journal
¦I loved that book. Charles Portis got a real Mark Twain feeling, the cynicism and the humor. I tried to buy the book myself.¦ -- John Wayne
Notă biografică
Charles Portis (1933–2020) lived most of his life in Arkansas, where he was born and raised. He was a graduate of the University of Arkansas, which in 2018 awarded him an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters. He served in the Marine Corps during the Korean War, was the London bureau chief of the New York Herald-Tribune, and was a writer for The New Yorker. He is the author of four other novels, also available from the Overlook Press: Norwood, The Dog of the South, Masters of Atlantis, and Gringos. A selection of his writing has been collected in Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany.
Caracteristici
Hailed as an American classic of the order of The Catcher in the Rye by many esteemed writers
Descriere
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Frank Ross is killed by one of his own workers. Tom Chaney shoots him down in the street. Ross' 14-year-old daughter Mattie 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 dangerous Indian territory to hunt Chaney down.