True Grit

‘True Grit is the best novel to come my way for a very long time. What book has given me greater pleasure in the last five years? Or in the last twenty? I do not know … What a writer!’ * Roald Dahl *
‘Charles Portis is a writer who - if there’s any justice - will come to be regarded as the author of classics of the order of a twentieth-century Mark Twain’ * Esquire *
‘Portis has made an epic and a legend. Mattie Ross should soon join the pantheon of America’s legendary figures such as Kit Carson, Wyatt Earp and Jesse James’ * Washington Post *
‘One of those rare sweet delights … one can recommend to inveterate fiction readers and to those who read only one or two novels a year’ * San Francisco Chronicle *

Charles Portis lives in Arkansas, where he was born and educated. He served in the Marine Corps during the Korean War. As a reporter, he wrote for the New York Herald-Tribune, and was also its London bureau chief.

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