True Grit: A Novel

Charles Portis

ISBN 10: 1468306294 / ISBN 13: 9781468306293

Edité par Harry N. Abrams October 2012, 2012

N° de réf. du vendeur 563208

Synopsis :

Charles Portis has long been acclaimed as one of America’s foremost writers. True Grit is the basis for two movies, the 1969 classic starring John Wayne and the Academy Award® winning 2010 version starring Jeff Bridges and written and directed by the Coen brothers.

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 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 status, this is an American classic through and through.

This mass-market edition includes an afterword by award-winning Donna Tartt, author of The Little Friend and The Secret History.

À propos de l'auteur: CHARLES PORTIS lives in Arkansas, where he was born and educated. 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.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : True Grit: A Novel
Éditeur : Harry N. Abrams October 2012
Date d'édition : 2012
Reliure : Paper Back
Etat : Good