True Grit
- 216
- Pages
- about 4 h
- Reading time
- NYT bestseller · 0 weeks on the list
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Our view
“True Grit” is a short, witty western carried by Mattie Ross, who recalls setting out at fourteen to avenge her father. Her voice is the pleasure of it: a girl who bargains as hard as she pursues the killer, and who describes the marshal Rooster Cogburn without sentiment. Some readers enjoy the opening and then find their interest fading. A little over two hundred pages for anyone who likes a strong narrator.
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About the book
True Grit is a 1968 novel by Charles Portis that was first published as a 1968 serial within The Saturday Evening Post. The novel is told from the perspective of an elderly spinster named Mattie Ross, who recounts the time a half century earlier when she was 14 and sought retribution for the murder of her father by a scoundrel, Tom Chaney. It is considered by some critics to be "one of the great American novels." True Grit is included in the Library of America of Portis' Collected Works.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.1 across 252 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 63% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Rankings average of 8.3. That is how 8.2 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.1 | 14 | 6% |
| Hardcover | 8.1 | 238 | 94% |
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