Format:
Ebook, Electronic Resources, Book
Title:
True grit [electronic resource] / Charles Portis ; with an afterword by Donna Tartt.
Author:
Portis, Charles.
Call Number:
eBook
Web Site:
Web Link Available online.
Publisher, Date:
New York, N.Y. : Overlook Press, 2010.
Description:
1 online resource (235 p.)
Summary:
Mattie Ross 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.
Subjects:
Teenage girls -- Fiction.
Fathers -- Death -- Fiction.
United States marshals -- Fiction.
Outlaws -- Fiction.
Revenge -- Fiction.
Genre:
Western stories.
Humorous fiction.
Electronic books.
Other Author:
Tartt, Donna.
ISBN:
* 9781590204597
* 159020459X