num_pages: 224
description: True Grit is the basis for two movies, the 1969 classic starring John Wayne and the Academy Award® winning 2010 version starring Jeff Bridges and written and directed by the Coen brothers.    True Grit tells the story of Mattie Ross, who 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. 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. True Grit is eccentric, cool, straight, and unflinching, like Mattie herself. From a writer of true status, this is an American classic through and through.   This mass-market edition includes an afterword by award-winning Donna Tartt, author of The Little Friend and The Secret History.
language: English
title: True Grit
titlecomplete: True Grit
characters: Ned Pepper, Rooster Cogburn, Mattie Ross, Tom Chaney
genres: Fiction, Historical, American, Adventure, Westerns, Literature, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, Audiobook
ratings_count: 55590
places: Indian Territory, Oklahoma, The United States of America, Fort Smith, Arkansas
publisher: The Overlook Press