True Grit
by Charles Portis (also rec’d by Anthony Bourdain )
Buy on AmazonThe dialogue in True Grit is exquisite. Portis was inspired, I believe, by the work of Andy Adams (1859–1935), an actual cowpuncher, who wrote the best fiction of the frontier. Read Adams’ The Log of a Cowboy and A Texas Matchmaker , both novels of the trail drive, for a visit to Reconstruction Texas.
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"The dialogue in True Grit is exquisite. Portis was inspired, I believe, by the work of Andy Adams (1859–1935), an actual cowpuncher, who wrote the best fiction of the frontier. Read Adams’ The Log of a Cowboy and A Texas Matchmaker , both novels of the trail drive, for a visit to Reconstruction Texas."
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