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

Portis, Charles. (Author). Tartt, Donna. (Added Author).

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781590204597
  • ISBN: 159020459X
  • Physical Description: 235 pages ; 21 cm
  • Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Overlook Press, 2010.

Content descriptions

General Note:
First published in 1968.
Target Audience Note:
800L Lexile
Subject: Teenage girls > Fiction.
Fathers > Death > Fiction.
United States marshals > Fiction.
Outlaws > Fiction.
Revenge > Fiction.
Fathers.
Genre: Western fiction.
Humorous fiction.

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  • 14 of 17 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 0 of 1 copy available at McDowell County Public Library.

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  • 1 current hold with 17 total copies.
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