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&sq=Google&lang=en&file=File:True_Grit_(1968_1st_ed_cover).jpg) Front cover of the 1968 Simon & Schuster hardback 1st edition of True Grit by Charles Portis. | |
| Author | Charles Portis |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Western |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
Publication date | 1968 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 215 |
True Grit is a 1968 novel by Charles Portis that was first published as a 1968 serial within The Saturday Evening Post.[1] The novel is told from the perspective of a woman named Mattie Ross, who recounts the time when she was 14 and sought retribution for the murder of her father by a scoundrel, Tom Chaney. It is considered by some critics to be "one of the great American novels."[2][3] True Grit is included in the Library of America of Portis' Collected Works. [4]
The novel was adapted for the screenplay of the 1969 film True Grit starring John Wayne, Kim Darby and Glen Campbell. Six years later, in 1975, Wayne reprised his Academy Award-winning role as the tough hard drinking one-eyed lawman in the sequel film Rooster Cogburn. In 2010, Joel and Ethan Coen wrote and directed another film adaptation of True Grit. In November 2010, The Overlook Press published a movie tie-in edition of the second film version of True Grit.
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- ^ Portis Charles and Jay Jennings. 2023. Collected Works : Norwood ; True Grit ; the Dog of the South ; Masters of Atlantis ; Gringos ; Stories & Other Writings. New York: Library of America. 2023.