Reviews
Rollicking . . . a beaut narrated in the unforgettable voice of Mattie Ross . . . Portis has crazy-cool literary swagger., "Tom Wolfe, who worked with Portis as a reporter at the New York Herald-Tribune in the early 1960s called him ³the original laconic cutup.² A generation of novelists since then have simply regarded him as a writers¹ writer and have made his name a sort of secret password. Soon, they¹ll no longer have him to themselves." Rolling StoneMagazine ³An epic and a legend.² -- The Washington Post ³Like Mark Twain¹s Huckleberry Finnand Thomas Berger¹s Little Big Man, Charles Portis¹s True Gritcaptures the naïve elegance of the American voice.² -- Jonathan Lethem ³An instant classicŠ.Read it and have the most fun you¹ve had reading a novel in years, maybe decades.² -- Newsday ³Skillfully constructed, a comic tour de force.² -- The New York Times Book Review ³Charles Portis details the savagery of the 1870s frontier through an astonishing narrative voice: that of the 14-year- old Mattie Ross, a flinty, skeptical, Bible-thumping scourge² -- Wall Street Journal ³I loved that book. Charles Portis got a real Mark Twain feeling, the cynicism and the humor. I tried to buy the book myself.² -- John Wayne, "Tom Wolfe, who worked with Portis as a reporter at the New York Herald-Tribune in the early 1960s called him 'the original laconic cutup.' A generation of novelists since then have simply regarded him as a writers' writer and have made his name a sort of secret password. Soon, they'll no longer have him to themselves." -- Rolling Stone Magazine "An epic and a legend."-- The Washington Post "Like Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn and Thomas Berger's Little Big Man , Charles Portis's True Grit captures the naïve elegance of the American voice."-- Jonathan Lethem "An instant classic... Read it and have the most fun you've had reading a novel in years, maybe decades."-- Newsday "Skillfully constructed, a comic tour de force."-- The New York Times Book Review "Charles Portis details the savagery of the 1870s frontier through an astonishing narrative voice: that of the 14-year-old Mattie Ross, a flinty, skeptical, Bible-thumping scourge"-- Wall Street Journal "I loved that book. Charles Portis got a real Mark Twain feeling, the cynicism and the humor."--John Wayne "'[The Coen Brothers] wanted to really make a version of the book by Charles Portis, and that was the first big piece of direction that was given to me by those guys: Don't study the movie, study the book. That's what I did and whenever you're making a movie of a book, it's wonderful because you've got so much more insight into the characters and the story that way.'"- -Jeff Bridges in USA Weekend, Charles Portis is an original, indescribable sui generis talent . . . Rereading Portis is one of the great pure pleasures--both visceral and cerebral--available in modern American literature., "Tom Wolfe, who worked with Portis as a reporter at the New York Herald-Tribune in the early 1960s called him the original laconic cutup. A generation of novelists since then have simply regarded him as a writers¦ writer and have made his name a sort of secret password. Soon, they'll no longer have him to themselves." - Rolling Stone "An epic and a legend." - The Washington Post "Like Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn and Thomas Berger's Little Big Man , Charles Portis's True Grit captures the naive elegance of the American voice." -- Jonathan Lethem "An instant classic. Read it and have the most fun you've had reading a novel in years, maybe decades." - Newsday "Skillfully constructed, a comic tour de force." - The New York Times Book Review "Charles Portis details the savagery of the 1870s frontier through an astonishing narrative voice: that of the 14-year-old Mattie Ross, a flinty, skeptical, Bible-thumping scourge." - Wall Street Journal "I loved that book. Charles Portis got a real Mark Twain feeling, the cynicism and the humor. I tried to buy the book myself." -John Wayne , "Tom Wolfe, who worked with Portis as a reporter at the New York Herald-Tribune in the early 1960s called him ¦the original laconic cutup.¦ A generation of novelists since then have simply regarded him as a writers¦ writer and have made his name a sort of secret password. Soon, they¦ll no longer have him to themselves." - Rolling Stone Magazine ¦An epic and a legend.¦ -- The Washington Post ¦Like Mark Twain¦s Huckleberry Finn and Thomas Berger¦s Little Big Man , Charles Portis¦s True Grit captures the nanve elegance of the American voice.¦ -- Jonathan Lethem ¦An instant classicè.Read it and have the most fun you¦ve had reading a novel in years, maybe decades.¦ -- Newsday ¦Skillfully constructed, a comic tour de force.¦ -- The New York Times Book Review ¦Charles Portis details the savagery of the 1870s frontier through an astonishing narrative voice: that of the 14-year- old Mattie Ross, a flinty, skeptical, Bible-thumping scourge¦ -- Wall Street Journal ¦I loved that book. Charles Portis got a real Mark Twain feeling, the cynicism and the humor. I tried to buy the book myself.¦ -- John Wayne, "Tom Wolfe, who worked with Portis as a reporter at the New York Herald-Tribune in the early 1960s called him the original laconic cutup. A generation of novelists since then have simply regarded him as a writers writer and have made his name a sort of secret password. Soon, they ll no longer have him to themselves." Rolling Stone Magazine An epic and a legend. -- The Washington Post Like Mark Twain s Huckleberry Finn and Thomas Berger s Little Big Man , Charles Portis s True Grit captures the na ve elegance of the American voice. -- Jonathan Lethem An instant classic'.Read it and have the most fun you ve had reading a novel in years, maybe decades. -- Newsday Skillfully constructed, a comic tour de force. -- The New York Times Book Review Charles Portis details the savagery of the 1870s frontier through an astonishing narrative voice: that of the 14-year- old Mattie Ross, a flinty, skeptical, Bible-thumping scourge -- Wall Street Journal I loved that book. Charles Portis got a real Mark Twain feeling, the cynicism and the humor. I tried to buy the book myself. -- John Wayne, How to describe the indescribable? Probably the best description I can give of True Grit is that I've never given it to any reader -- male or female, of any age or sensibility -- who didn't enjoy it.
