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True grit / Charles Portis ; with an afterword by Donna Tartt. - New York, N.Y. : Overlook Press, 2010. - 235 p. ; 21 cm.
First published in 1968.
Mattie Ross is just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shoots her father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robs him of his life, his horse, and $150 in cash money. Mattie leaves home to avenge her father's blood. With the one-eyed Rooster Cogburn, the meanest available U.S. Marshal, by her side, Mattie pursues the homicide into Indian Territory.
9781590204597 (pbk.) : 159020459X (pbk.) :
Teenage girls
Fathers--Death
United States marshals
Outlaws
Revenge
Por 32
True grit / Charles Portis ; with an afterword by Donna Tartt. - New York, N.Y. : Overlook Press, 2010. - 235 p. ; 21 cm.
First published in 1968.
Mattie Ross is just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shoots her father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robs him of his life, his horse, and $150 in cash money. Mattie leaves home to avenge her father's blood. With the one-eyed Rooster Cogburn, the meanest available U.S. Marshal, by her side, Mattie pursues the homicide into Indian Territory.
9781590204597 (pbk.) : 159020459X (pbk.) :
Teenage girls
Fathers--Death
United States marshals
Outlaws
Revenge
Por 32