True Grit
Portis, Charles
| Autor: | Portis, Charles |
|---|---|
| Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 03.01.2005 |
| EAN: | 9780747572633 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 224 |
| Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Verlag: | Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Untertitel: | The New York Times bestselling that inspired two award-winning films |
Produktinformationen "True Grit"
The classic western novel behind the Oscar-nominated film by the Coen brothersFEATURING AN INTRODUCTION BY DONNA TARTT'True Grit is the best novel to come my way for a very long time.' ROALD DAHL'Portis has made an epic and a legend. Mattie Ross should soon join the pantheon of America's legendary figures such as Kit Carson, Wyatt Earp and Jesse James' WASHINGTON POSTThere is no knowing what lies in a man's heart. On a trip to buy ponies, Frank Ross is killed by one of his own workers. Tom Chaney shoots him down in the street for a horse, $150 cash, and two Californian gold pieces.Ross's unusually mature and single-minded fourteen-year-old daughter Mattie travels to claim his body, and finds that the authorities are doing nothing to find Chaney.Then she hears of Rooster - a man, she's told, who has grit - and convinces him to join her in a quest into dark, dangerous Indian territory to hunt Chaney down and avenge her father's murder.
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