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True Grit (Paperback): Charles Portis True Grit (Paperback)
Charles Portis
R302 R274 Discovery Miles 2 740 Save R28 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

There is no knowing what lies in a man's 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, USD150 cash, and two Californian gold pieces. Ross's 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's 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.

Charles Portis: Collected Works (LOA #369) - Norwood / True Grit / The Dog of the South / Masters of Atlantis / Gringos /... Charles Portis: Collected Works (LOA #369) - Norwood / True Grit / The Dog of the South / Masters of Atlantis / Gringos / Stories & Other Writings (Hardcover)
Charles Portis; Edited by Jay Jennings
R1,120 R896 Discovery Miles 8 960 Save R224 (20%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
True Grit (Paperback): Charles Portis True Grit (Paperback)
Charles Portis
R435 R401 Discovery Miles 4 010 Save R34 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Charles Portis has long been acclaimed as one of America's foremost comic writers. "True Grit" is his most famous novel--first published in 1968, and the basis for the movie of the same name starring John Wayne. It 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 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.
"True Grit" is eccentric, cool, straight, and unflinching, like Mattie herself. From a writer of true cult status, this is an American classic through and through. This new edition, with a smart new package and an afterword by acclaimed author Donna Tartt, will bring this masterpiece to an even broader audience.

Escape Velocity - A Charles Portis Miscellany (Paperback): Charles Portis Escape Velocity - A Charles Portis Miscellany (Paperback)
Charles Portis; Edited by Jay Jennings
R433 Discovery Miles 4 330 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Though Charles Portis is best known for his fiction writing, he is also a prolific essayist, travel writer, and newspaper reporter. Collected here in "Escape Velocity," edited by Jay Jennings, is his "miscellany" -- journalism, short fiction, memoir, and even the play "Delray's New Moon," published for the first time in this volume. Portis covers topics as varied as the civil rights movement, road tripping in Baja, and Elvis' s visits to his aging mother for publications such as the "New York Herald Tribune" and "Saturday Evening Post." Fans of Portis's droll Southern humor and quirky characters will be thrilled at this new addition to his library, and those not yet familiar with his work will find a great introduction to him here. Also included are tributes by accomplished authors including Donna Tartt and Ron Rosenbaum.

Masters of Atlantis - A Novel (Paperback, Reprint): Charles Portis Masters of Atlantis - A Novel (Paperback, Reprint)
Charles Portis
R441 R377 Discovery Miles 3 770 Save R64 (15%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Lamar Jimmersan, an American doughboy in 1917 France, learns that his life's purpose is to administer the brotherhood of the Gnomons, preserves of the wisdom of the lost city of Atlantis, and Gnomonism rises and eventually fades away in America.

Norwood (Paperback): Charles Portis Norwood (Paperback)
Charles Portis
R443 R347 Discovery Miles 3 470 Save R96 (22%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Out of the American Neon Desert of Roller Dromes, chili parlors, The Grand Ole Opry, and girls who want "to live in a trailer and play records all night" comes ex-marine and troubadour Norwood Pratt. Sent on a mission to New York by Grady Fring, the Kredit King, Norwood has visions of "speeding across the country in a late model car, seeing all the sights." Instead, he gets involved in a wild journey that takes him in and out of stolen cars, freight trains, and buses. By the time he returns home to Ralph, Texas, Norwood has met his true love, Rita Lee, on a Trailways bus; befriended Edmund B. Ratner, the second shortest midget in show business and "the world's smallest perfect fat man"; and helped Joann, "the chicken with a college education, " realize her true potential in life.

Gringos (Paperback): Charles Portis Gringos (Paperback)
Charles Portis
R477 R379 Discovery Miles 3 790 Save R98 (21%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Following the enormous success of the reissues of Charles Portis's first three novels -- The Dog of the South, Norwood, and Masters of Atlantis -- comes the reissue of a fourth truly brilliant, wonderfully bizarre novel by one of our great American novelists.

Jimmy Burns is an expatriate American living in Mexico who has an uncommonly astute eye for the absurd little details that comprise your average American. For a time, Jimmy spent his days unearthing pre-Colombian artifacts. Now he makes a living doing small trucking jobs and helping out with the occasional missing person situation -- whatever it takes to remain "the very picture of an American idler in Mexico, right down to the grass-green golfing trousers". But when Jimmy's laid-back lifestyle is seriously imposed upon by a ninety-pound stalker called Louise, a sudden wave of "hippies" (led by a murderous ex-con guru) in search of psychic happenings, and a group of archaeologists who are unearthing (illegally) Mayan tombs, his simple South-of-the-Border existence faces a clear and present danger.

The Dog of the South (Paperback): Charles Portis The Dog of the South (Paperback)
Charles Portis
R420 R371 Discovery Miles 3 710 Save R49 (12%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

As a novelist with a brilliantly singular vision of America, Charles Portis has invited comparisons to Pynchon and DeLillo. This reissue of The Dog of the South, to be followed by Masters of Atlantis, Norwood, and Gringos, is the perfect Portis initiation for new readers and a welcome reunion for longtime fans.

The Dog of the South is the story of Ray Midge tracking down his wife, Norma -- who has run off with her first husband -- by following credit card receipts (His credit card!). Midge starts out in Norma's lover's compact car, which has 74,000 miles on it and a quarter-turn slack in the steering wheel (They took his Ford Torino!). The trail leads from Arkansas, down to Mexico, and into Honduras, where Midge stops to help, and of course gets entangled with, Dr. Reo Symes in his broken down bus. "The Dog of the South". Symes is a pure Portis character -- a crazily optimistic, broken-down dreamer obsessed with secret knowledge in the form of John Selmer Dix, the elusive writer of inspirational books for salesmen. As Midge chases Norma and Symes tries to sort the true from the false Dix sightings, Portis spins an extraordinary novel that addresses with comic eloquence the deep longing of the American psyche for things just to make some sense.

The Dog of the South (Paperback): Charles Portis The Dog of the South (Paperback)
Charles Portis
R446 R402 Discovery Miles 4 020 Save R44 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Ray Midge is waiting for his credit card bill to arrive. His wife, Norma, has run off with her ex-husband, taking Ray's cards, shotgun and car. But from the receipts, Ray can track where they've gone. He takes off after them, as does an irritatingly tenacious bail bondsman, both following the romantic couple's spending as far as Mexico. There Ray meets Dr Reo Symes, the seemingly down-on-his-luck and rather eccentric owner of a beaten up and broken down bus, who needs a ride to Belize. The further they drive, in a car held together by coat-hangers and excesses of oil, the wilder their journey gets. But they're not going to give up easily.

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