{"product_id":"1061156","title":"True Grit","description":"\u003ch1\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ccenter\u003eTrue Grit\u003c\/center\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharles Portis lives in Arkansas, where he was born and educated. He served in the Marine Corps during the Korean War. As a reporter, he wrote for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Herald-Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e, and was also its London bureau chief.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'True Grit is the best novel to come my way for a very long time.  What book has given me greater pleasure in the last five years?  Or in the last twenty?  I do not know ... What a writer!'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Charles Portis is a writer who - if there's any justice - will come to be regarded as the author of classics of the order of a twentieth-century Mark Twain'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'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'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'One of those rare sweet delights ... one can recommend to inveterate fiction readers and to those who read only one or two novels a year'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA classic American novel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSPECIFICATIONS:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003eCharles Portis - Чарльз Портис\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003eBloomsbury\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/strong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e2005\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e216 pst\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWidth:\u003c\/strong\u003e129 mm \/ 5,1'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e198 mm \/ 7,8'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e180 g\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e9780747572633\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47380104511626,"sku":"1061156","price":51.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0643\/1070\/6314\/files\/True_Grit_-_True_Grit_9780747572633-1.jpg?v=1763357879","url":"https:\/\/bookstoreint.com\/products\/1061156","provider":"Bookstore International","version":"1.0","type":"link"}