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Author Portis, Charles, author.

Title True grit / Charles Portis ; with an afterword by Donna Tartt.

Publication Info. New York, N.Y. : Overlook Press, 2021.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Reserve Book 1st Floor  813.54 P836t 2021    ---  Available
1 copy being processed for Axe Acquisitions Order.
Description 235 pages ; 21 cm.
Note First published in 1968.
Summary 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.
Subject Teenage girls -- Fiction.
Fathers -- Death -- Fiction.
United States marshals -- Fiction.
Outlaws -- Fiction.
Revenge -- Fiction.
Added Author Tartt, Donna, writer of afterward.
ISBN 9781590204597
159020459X

 
    
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