false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173209258m/257845.jpg 257845 20 Charles Portis has been acclaimed as one of America's foremost comic writers. <i>True Grit</i> is his most famous novel--first published in 1968--and the basis for the movie of the same name starring John Wayne (for which he won his only Academy Award). It tells the story of Mattie Ross, a fourteen-year-old girl from Dardanelle, Arkansas, who sets out in the winter of eighteen seventy-something to avenge the murder of her father. <br><br> Since not even Mattie (who is no self-doubter) would ride into Indian Territory alone, she "convinces" one-eyed "Rooster" Cogburn, the meanest available U.S. Marshall, to tag along with her. As Mattie outdickers and outmaneuvers the hard-bitten types in her path, as her performance under fire makes them eat their words, her indestructible vitality and harsh innocence by turns amuse, horrify, and touch the reader. What happens-to Mattie, to the gang of outlaws unfortunate enough to tangle with her-rings with the dramatic rightness of legend and the marvelous overtones, the continual surprises, of personality. <br><br> <i>True Grit</i> is eccentric, cool, straight, and unflinching, like Mattie herself, who tells the story a half-century later in a voice that sounds strong and sure enough to outlast us all. 1320617 1968 True Grit total:455|5:159|4:182|3:84|2:26|1:4| 455 1831 641 102 5 2 false false Sun May 03 16:26:58 -0700 2009 Sun May 03 16:29:55 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Apr 08 11:37:16 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 08 11:46:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Sep 09 06:35:42 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 07:04:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 27 21:16:41 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 27 21:29:02 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1970 Fri Sep 04 19:31:28 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 04 19:42:32 -0700 2009
Subsequently, when I learned the mo...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 29 23:32:27 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 01 14:02:24 -0800 2009 My library had to fetch this up from the arc...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat May 30 23:12:33 -0700 2009 Sat May 30 23:29:04 -0700 2009 This book is about a pissed off little girl who tracks down her father's killer so she can confront and murder him... I swear, I'm not making this up. She's truly scary... and empowering. It's not the fastest paced s...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu May 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 25 13:21:10 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 16 02:04:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false true Wed Feb 25 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 26 13:11:36 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 26 13:17:50 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Dec 06 08:18:46 -0800 2008 Fri Mar 06 08:50:03 -0800 2009 2 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Mar 05 15:00:53 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 18 15:48:24 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Tue Sep 18 15:11:20 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 18 15:14:10 -0700 2007 True Grit is a cult novel by Charles Portis, from which the famous John Wayne movie was adapted. Wayne won his only Oscar from his performance in that movie (I believe), and while it may have been something of a consolation prize for not having been honored over his long career, it has to be admitte...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu May 28 11:51:16 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 12:08:45 -0700 2009
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I do not read very many westerns. I can think of only a handful. But I have been lucky in the ones I have chosen to crack open because they've been pretty good. I always like a good opening line and True Grit has got a decent one:
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