In the late summer of a long ago year, a killer arrived in a small city. His name was Alton Turner Blackwood, and in the space of a few months he brutally murdered four ...
Charles Portis has long been acclaimed as one of America's foremost comic writers. True Grit is his most famous novel—first published in 1968, and the basis for the movie of the same name starring John Wayne. It 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 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.
True Grit is eccentric, cool, straight, and unflinching, like Mattie herself. From a writer of true cult status, this is an American classic through and through. This new edition, with a smart new package and an afterword by acclaimed author Donna Tartt, will bring this masterpiece to an even broader audience.
Also available this week:
- In Too Deep (Arcane Society Series #10) by Jayne Ann Krentz
- Bloody Valentine (Blue Bloods Series #7) by Melissa de la Cruz
- Secrets to the Grave by Tami Hoag
- Deadly Little Games by Laurie Faria Stolarz
- Sapphique by Catherine Fisher
- The Lost Saint (Dark Divine Series #2) by Bree Despain
- To Have and to Kill: A Wedding Cake Mystery by Mary Jane Clark
- Once in a Full Moon by Ellen Schreiber
- Texas! Sage by Sandra Brown
- Deja Vu (Sisterhood Series #19) by Fern Michaels
- Black Magic Sanction (Rachel Morgan Series #8) by Kim Harrison
- Invisible I (The Amanda Project Series #1) by Stella Lennon and Melissa Kantor
- The Scent of Jasmine by Jude Deveraux
- To See the Light by Ben Sharp
- The First Rule (Joe Pike Series #2) by Robert Crais
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