True Grit by Charles PortisRequirements: .MP3 reader, 165.2 mb, 6 hrs and 15 minsOverview: In the 1870s, young Mattie Ross learns that her beloved father was gunned down by his former handyman. But even though this gutsy 14-year-old is seeking vengeance, she is smart enough to figure out she can’t go alone after a desperado […]
Escape Velocity by Charles Portis, Jay Jennings (Ed)Requirements: .ePUB Reader, 2.8 MBOverview: Though Charles Portis is best known for his fiction writing, he is also a prolific essayist, travel writer, and newspaper reporter. Collected here in Escape Velocity, edited by Jay Jennings, is his “miscellany” –– journalism, short fiction, memoir, and even the play Delray’s […]
True Grit by Charles PortisRequirements: ePUB reader, MOBI reader, 0.43 MbOverview: Charles Portis has been acclaimed as one of America’s foremost comic writers. True Grit is his most famous novel. First published in 1968, and the basis for the movie of the same name starring John Wayne (for which he won his only Academy Award), […]
Four Books by Charles PortisRequirements: MOBI/ePUB reader, ~1mb eachOverview: Charles McColl Portis was born in 1933, in El Dorado Arkansas and was raised in various towns in southern Arkansas. He served in the Marine Corps during the Korean war and after his discharge in 1955 attended the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. He graduated with […]