True grit

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Charles Portis: True grit (1968, Simon & Schuster)

215 Seiten

English language

Am 1968 von Simon & Schuster veröffentlicht.

OCLC Nummer:
1001874883

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There is no knowing what lies in a mans 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. Rosss 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 is 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.

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Themen

  • Outlaws
  • Death
  • Teenage girls
  • United States marshals
  • Fathers
  • Revenge
  • Fiction

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  • West (U.S.)