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14-year-old Mattie is off to avenge the death of her father, joined by a sheriff and a Texas Ranger. Portis’s classic novel reads like a Cormac McCarthy Western, only this one’s laugh-out-loud funny.
#1 New York Times bestseller
“An epic and a legend.” —Washington Post
“Quite simply, an American masterpiece.” —Boston Globe
“Charles Portis had a wonderful talent—original, quirky, exciting.” —Larry McMurtry
Charles Portis has long been acclaimed as one of America’s most enduring and incomparable literary voices, and his novels have left an indelible mark on the American canon. True Grit, his most famous novel, was first published in 1968, and has garnered critical acclaim as well as enthusia...
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