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A #1 New York Times bestseller, Charles Portis’s True Grit is “an epic and a legend” (Washington Post), a story of danger and adventure in the Old West—the basis for two award-winning films, the first starring John Wayne in his only Oscar-winning role, as Marshall Rooster Cogburn, and the widely pra... Read More about True Grit: A Novel

The ultimate Portis: for the first time in one collector's volume, the complete fiction and collected nonfiction of the author of True GritSummer reading recommendation in THE WASHINGTON POST, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, and THE MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL"Charles Portis is one of the great pure pl... Read More about Charles Portis: Collected Works (LOA #369): Norwood / True Grit / The Dog of the South / Masters of Atlantis / Gringos / Stories & Other Writings

From Charles Portis, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of True Grit, The Dog of the South is a novel about a husband on a crazy road trip pursuing his runaway wife.  “Hilarious . . . is, to me, a very American voice.” —Bob Odenkirk, The Week   Ray Midge is waiting for his credit car... Read More about The Dog of the South: A Novel

Masters of Atlantis is a cockeyed journey into an America of misfits and con men, oddballs, and innocents, by one of America’s most respected novelists, #1New York Times bestselling author Charles Portis.“One of the few laugh-out-loud novels I’ve read.” —Conan O’Brien Lamar Jimmerson is the leader o... Read More about The Masters of Atlantis

Norwood, #1 New York Times bestselling author Charles Portis’s first novel, displayed right out of the gate the wit, style, and singular voice that made him one of our great American writers.  “A great American deadpan comedy. . . . Norwood, like a belt of whiskey, cleared my sinuses right up.... Read More about Norwood: A Novel

The #1 New York Times bestselling classic frontier adventure novel, with over two million copies in print      True Grit 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 ... Read More about True Grit: A Novel