True Grit : The New York Times bestselling that inspired two award-winning films

Author: Charles Portis

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 3 January 2005 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 224 pages
196 x 128 x 15mm | 168g

There 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.