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True Grit
- Author
- Charles Portis
- Narrator
- Donna Tartt
- Publisher
- W. F. Howes Ltd
- Publish Date
- 1 February 2011
- Run Time
- 6 hours 16 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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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 Chancy down and avenge her father's murder.
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- Author
- Charles Portis
- Narrator
- Donna Tartt
- Duration
- 6 hours 16 minutes
- Release Date
- 1 February 2011
- ISBN
- 9781407469065
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- W. F. Howes Ltd
- Genre
- Adventure fiction: Westerns
Synopsis
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. Torn Chancy 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 Chancy down and avenge her father's murder.
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