True Grit 大地惊雷 9781590204597

"Tom Wolfe, who worked with Portis as a reporter at the New York Herald-Tribune in the early 1960s called him 'the original laconic cutup.' A generation of novelists since then have simply regarded him as a writers' writer and have made his name a sort of secret password. Soon, they'll no longer have him to themselves." --Rolling Stone Magazine "An epic and a legend."--The Washington Post "Like Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn and Thomas Berger's Little Big Man, Charles Portis's True Grit captures the naïve elegance of the American voice."--Jonathan Lethem "An instant classic... Read it and have the most fun you've had reading a novel in years, maybe decades."--Newsday "Skillfully constructed, a comic tour de force."--The New York Times Book Review "Charles Portis details the savagery of the 1870s frontier through an astonishing narrative voice: that of the 14-year-old Mattie Ross, a flinty, skeptical, Bible-thumping scourge"--Wall Street Journal "I loved that book. Charles Portis got a real Mark Twain feeling, the cynicism and the humor."--John Wayne "'[The Coen Brothers] wanted to really make a version of the book by Charles Portis, and that was the first big piece of direction that was given to me by those guys: Don't study the movie, study the book. That's what I did and whenever you're making a movie of a book, it's wonderful because you've got so much more insight into the characters and the story that way.'"--Jeff Bridges in USA Weekend