True Grit

Description:

True Grit is Charles Portis' most famous novel--first published in 1968. 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.

subjects: Death,  Teenage girls,  Western fiction,  United States marshals,  Fathers,  Fiction in English,  Revenge,  Fiction,  Outlaws,  Fiction, westerns,  Fiction, humorous,  Large type books,  Western stories,  Fiction, humorous, general

Places: Western United States

Times: 19th century