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True Grit

Written by: Charles Portis
Narrated by: Donna Tartt
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Mattie Ross, a 14-year-old girl from Dardanelle, Arkansas, sets out to avenge her Daddy who was shot to death by a no-good outlaw. Mattie convinces one-eyed "Rooster" Cogburn, the meanest U.S. marshal in the land, to ride along with her. In True Grit, we have a true American classic, as young Mattie, as vital as she is innocent, outdickers and outmaneuvers the hard-bitten men of the trail in a legend that will last through the ages. Genre Fiction Mystery Fiction
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What the critics say

"Charles Portis is perhaps the most original, indescribable sui generis talent overlooked by literary culture in America." ( Esquire)
“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)
“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)
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The bickering between the characters was what made this good listen. The voices was great. The storey was fine. A regular storey you would expect in a western.

Great dialogue

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I don't have a bad thing to say about this audiobook. I enjoyed every minute of it. The narrator is wonderful. You will fall in love with Mattie Ross!

"The wicked flee when none pursueth"

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just loved it will definitely read it again and keep it on hand, to read to others

just loved it will read it again

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This is a very good western which rises close to great because of the superb job done by the narrator Donna Tartt.

Great narration makes the story

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So much better than the movie. Maddie Ross is wonderful.
Narration first rate
A trreat!

Not to be missed!

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