Summary
Charles Portis has long been acclaimed as one of America's foremost comic writers. Full description
Summary: |
Charles Portis has long been acclaimed as one of America's foremost comic writers. Pursuing a murderer who has escaped into Indian Territory, U.S. Marshal Rooster J. Cogburn teams up with a bounty-hunting Texas Ranger and Mattie Ross, a cantankerous young lady who is bent on revenge. U.S. marshal, Rooster Cogburn was hired by Mattie to kill the man who murdered her father and stole the family nest egg. She insists on accompanying Cogburn on his quest. |
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Item Description: |
"50th Anniversary Edition"--cover. |
Physical Description: |
264 pages |
ISBN: |
9781468316407 1468316400 |
Author Notes: |
True Grit has been made into a movie two times, once in 1969 with John Wayne (who won his only academy award by playing the main character of Rooster Cogburn), and a second time in 2010 with Jeff Bridges as the main character. Mr. Bridges was nominated for the Rooster Cogburn role, but did not win. Charles Portis died on February 17, 2020 in Little Rock, Arkansas at age 86. He had been under hospice care for two years. (Bowker Author Biography) |