“People do not give it credence that a fourteen-year-old girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father’s blood but it did not seem so strange then, although I will say it did not happen every day.”
Charles Portis - True Grit
To most the movie is quite well known especially for the image of an older John Wayne, reins in his teeth, charging at a group of bad guys lead by Robert Duvall, shooting with is six shooters. What is sad is that the book is not more well known.
I remember in school being told how precise, simple and effective Hemingway's prose are. Portis takes that to the extreme. Reading True Grit is spectacular if only cause it seems like there are no wasted words. I'm sorry that it isn't read in grade schools the same way that books like The Old Man and the Sea are.
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