New York Times Book Review
Skillfully constructed, a comic tour de force.
Anthony Bourdain
Charles Portis’s True Grit is a masterpiece.
Jonathan Lethem
Charles Portis’s True Grit captures the naive elegance of the American Voice.
Entertainment Weekly
Rollicking . . . a beaut narrated in the unforgettable voice of Mattie Ross . . . Portis has crazy-cool literary swagger.
Boston Globe
Quite simply, an American masterpiece.
The Week - David Mamet
The dialogue in True Grit is exquisite.
Esquire - Ron Rosenbaum
Charles Portis is an original, indescribable sui generis talent . . . Rereading Portis is one of the great pure pleasures—both visceral and cerebral—available in modern American literature.
Larry McMurtry
I’ve always thought Charles Portis had a wonderful talent—original, quirky, exciting.
The Believer - Ed Park
It’s possible that True Grit is the genuine article—a book so strong that it reads as myth."
Donna Tartt
How to describe the indescribable? Probably the best description I can give of True Grit is that I’ve never given it to any reader — male or female, of any age or sensibility — who didn’t enjoy it.
Washington Post
An epic and a legend.
From the Publisher
How to describe the indescribable? Probably the best description I can give of True Grit is that I’ve never given it to any reader — male or female, of any age or sensibility — who didn’t enjoy it.” —Donna Tartt, New York Times Book Review
“Skillfully constructed, a comic tour de force.”—New York Times Book Review
“Quite simply, an American masterpiece.”—Boston Globe
“Rollicking . . . a beaut narrated in the unforgettable voice of Mattie Ross . . . Portis has crazy-cool literary swagger.”—Entertainment Weekly
“Charles Portis is an original, indescribable sui generis talent . . . Rereading Portis is one of the great pure pleasures—both visceral and cerebral—available in modern American literature.”—Ron Rosenbaum, Esquire
“It’s possible that True Grit is the genuine article—a book so strong that it reads as myth."—Ed Park, The Believer
“Charles Portis’s True Grit is a masterpiece.”—Anthony Bourdain, New York Times Book Review
“The dialogue in True Grit is exquisite.”—David Mamet, The Week
“I’ve always thought Charles Portis had a wonderful talent—original, quirky, exciting.”—Larry McMurtry
“An epic and a legend.”—Washington Post
“Charles Portis’s True Grit captures the naive elegance of the American Voice.”—Jonathan Lethem
New York Times Book Review - Donna Tartt
How to describe the indescribable? Probably the best description I can give of True Grit is that I’ve never given it to any reader — male or female, of any age or sensibility — who didn’t enjoy it.
Roald Dahl
"True Grit is the best novel to come my way in a very long time… Marvelous."
Los Angeles Times
"Like Twain, Portis respects his young narrator as a human being with a fully developed moral sensibility, even when the adults in the novel don't."
The Washington Post
“Portis has made an epic and a legend. Mattie Ross should soon join the pantheon of America’s legendary figures such as Kit Carson, Wyatt Earp, and Jesse James.
Newsday
An instant classic....Read it and have the most fun you've had reading a novel in years, maybe decades.
The New York Times Book Review
Skillfully constructed, a comic tour de force.
