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True Grit is a 1968 novel by Charles Portis that was first published as a 1968 serial in The Saturday Evening Post.Ed Park. "Like Cormac McCarthy, But Funny", The Believer, March 2003. The novel is told from the perspective of a woman named Mattie Read More..

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Description	True Grit is a 1968 novel by Charles Portis that was first published as a 1968 serial in The Saturday Evening Post.Ed Park. "Like Cormac McCarthy, But Funny", The Believer, March 2003. The novel is told from the perspective of a woman named Mattie Ross who recounts the time when she was 14 years old and sought retribution for the murder of her father by a scoundrel named Tom Chaney. It is considered by some critics Lehmann, Chris, "Pelecanos on the Enduring Power of 'True Grit'", NPR, June 2006 Jones, Malcolm, "True Lit", Newsweek, December 9, 2010 to be "one of the great American novels".The novel was adapted for the screenplay of the 1969 film True Grit starring Kim Darby as Mattie Ross and John Wayne as Rooster Cogburn.In 2010, Joel and Ethan Coen wrote and directed another film adaption of the same name, which starred Hailee Steinfeld as Mattie Ross and Jeff Bridges as Rooster Cogburn.In November 2010, The Overlook Press published a movie tie-in edition of True Grit.
Description	True Grit is a 1968 novel by Charles Portis that was first published as a 1968 serial in The Saturday Evening Post.Ed Park. "Like Cormac McCarthy, But Funny", The Believer, March 2003. The novel is told from the perspective of a woman named Mattie Ross who recounts the time when she was 14 years old and sought retribution for the murder of her father by a scoundrel named Tom Chaney. It is considered by some critics Lehmann, Chris, "Pelecanos on the Enduring Power of 'True Grit'", NPR, June 2006 Jones, Malcolm, "True Lit", Newsweek, December 9, 2010 to be "one of the great American novels".The novel was adapted for the screenplay of the 1969 film True Grit starring Kim Darby as Mattie Ross and John Wayne as Rooster Cogburn.In 2010, Joel and Ethan Coen wrote and directed another film adaption of the same name, which starred Hailee Steinfeld as Mattie Ross and Jeff Bridges as Rooster Cogburn.In November 2010, The Overlook Press published a movie tie-in edition of True Grit.

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Name	True Grit
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Authors	Charles Portis
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Genre	Western
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Language	English
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Country	United States
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