The most famous novel by Charles Portis, True Grit is a rousing frontier adventure tale in which fourteen-year-old Mattie Ross seeks to avenge her father's murder by the coward Tom Chaney with the aid of the mean and one-eyed US marshal...

The classic western novel behind the Oscar-nominated film by the Coen brothers 'True Grit is the best novel to come my way for a very long time.' ROALD DAHL 'Portis has made an epic and a legend. Mattie Ross should soon join the pantheon...

Back in print, Portis's brilliant "white comedy" is an unforgettable tale of secret societies, lost cities, and sacred texts--a cockeyed journey into an America of misfits and con men, oddballs and innocents. von Portis, Charles

True Grit 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. Mattie...

"True Grit: A Novel" von Charles Portis ist ein Westernroman, der die Geschichte der 14-jährigen Mattie Ross erzählt. Nach dem Mord an ihrem Vater durch den feigen Tom Chaney beschließt Mattie, Gerechtigkeit zu suchen und Chaney zur...

Jimmy Burns is living the expatriate life in Mexico, but his laid-back lifestyle is imposed upon by a 90-pound stalker called Louise, a sudden wave of "hippies" led by a murderous ex-con guru, and a group of archeologists illegally...