A01=Charles Portis
adventure story
american indian
Author_Charles Portis
Category=FBA
classic
coen brothers
coming of age
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eq_fiction
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film adaptation
kurt russell
movie version
overlooked forgotten gems
rooster cogburn
western
wild west
Product details
- ISBN 9780747572633
- Weight: 164g
- Dimensions: 196 x 128mm
- Publication Date: 03 Jan 2005
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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, $150 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 lives in Arkansas, where he was born and educated. He served in the Marine Corps during the Korean War. As a reporter, he wrote for the New York Herald-Tribune, and was also its London bureau chief.
