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Review "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 na?ve elegance of the American voice."--Jonathan Lethem "An instant classic... 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."--John Wayne "'[The Coen Brothers] wanted to really make a version of the book by Charles Portis, and that was the first b

Who reads True Grit : a Novel?

Author

Portis, Charles

Publisher

Overlook TP

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781468301250

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Westerns

Rating

4.7 / 5 (5,953 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14