Classics
Crime
Humor
1969
True Grit by Charles Portis
Published in Spanish as Valor de ley
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.
What it is
Outlaws and guns in the West · comedy with teeth
What happens in it
Western
Revenge
How it feels
Before you pick it up
Is it for you?
It's for you if…
- you like dry, sideways humour
- you want something big, with room to breathe
- you're drawn to the dark side of people
Maybe not if…
- you're after something comforting
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