Charles Portis
1) True grit
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
True Grit tells the story of Mattie Ross, who 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. Mattie leaves home to avenge her fathers blood. With the one-eyed Rooster Cogburn, the meanest available U.S. Marshal, by her side, Mattie pursues the homicide into Indian Territory. True Grit is eccentric, cool, straight, and...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 369
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The ultimate Portis: for the first time in one collector's volume, the complete fiction and collected nonfiction of the author of True Grit Summer reading recommendation in THE WASHINGTON POST, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, and THE MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL "Charles Portis is one of the great pure pleasures available in American literature." —Ron Rosenbaum "Like Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn and Thomas Berger’s Little Big Man, Charles Portis’s...
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Jimmy Burns is an expatriate American living in Mexico who has an uncommonly astute eye for the absurd little details that comprise your average American. For a time, Jimmy spent his days unearthing pre-Colombian artifacts. Now he makes a living doing small trucking jobs and helping out with the occasional missing person situation--whatever it takes to remain "the very picture of an American idler in Mexico, right down to the grass-green golfing trousers."...
4) Norwood
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Determined to collect a seventy dollar debt from an old friend in the Marines, Norwood Pratt travels to New York, meeting eccentric characters along the way.
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Lamar Jimmerson is the leader of the Gnomon Society, the international fraternal order dedicated to preserving the arcane wisdom of the lost city of Atlantis. Stationed in France in 1917, Jimmerson comes across a little book crammed with Atlantean puzzles, Egyptian riddles, and extended alchemical metaphors. It's the Codex Pappus - the sacred Gnomon text. Soon he is basking in the lore of lost Atlantis, convinced that his mission on earth is to administer...
6) True grit
Publisher
DreamWorks Pictures
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"Mattie Ross ... is determined to avenge her father's blood by capturing Tom Chaney ... , the man who shot and killed him for two pieces of gold. Just fourteen, she enlists the help of Rooster Cogburn ... , a one-eyed, trigger-happy U.S. Marshall with an affinity for drinking, and hardened Texas Ranger LaBoeuf ... to track the fleeing Chaney. Despite their differences, their ruthless determination leads them on a perilous adventure that can only have...
7) True grit
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A teenage girl hires the drunken, one-eyed, overweight marshal Rooster Cogburn to find and kill the man who murdered her father and stole all the family's money.
U.S. Marshall Rooster Cogburn is hired by a 14-year-old girl to kill the man who murdered her father and stole the family nest egg. She accepts the help of a Texas Ranger, who is intent on the reward, and accompanies them on the quest.
John Wayne won an Academy Award for best actor for...
8) True Grit
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Mattie Ross is determined to avenge her father's blood by capturing Tom Chaney, the man who shot and killed him for two pieces of gold. Just fourteen, she enlists the help of Rooster Cogburn, a one-eyed, trigger-happy U.S. Marshal with an affinity for drinking, and hardened Texas Ranger LaBoeuf to track the fleeing Chaney. Despite their differences, their ruthless determination leads them on a perilous adventure that can only have one outcome: retribution....
Series
Publisher
MCA Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
A rough-edged deputy marshall teams up with a strait-laced missionary to track down a band of murdering bank robbers. During the pursuit of the outlaws, a warm rapport develops between the rough-and-tumble lawman and the flinty reverend's daughter.