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Charles Portis
Out of the American neon desert of Roller Dromes, chili parlors, country music, and girls who want to live in a trailer and play records all night comes ex-marine and…
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Masters of Atlantis is a cock-eyed journey into an America of misfits and con-men, oddballs, and innocents.
Charles Portis has long been acclaimed as one of America’s foremost writers. True Grit is the basis for two movies, the 1969 classic starring John Wayne and the Academy Award…
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A classic American novel
Written by the author of True Grit .
From Arkansas down to New Mexico and eventually leading to Honduras, a man is on the hunt for his wife who is following her first husband by a trail of…
Though Charles Portis is best known for his fiction writing, he is also a prolific essayist, travel writer, and newspaper reporter.
Following the enormous success of the reissues of Charles Portis’s first three novels-The Dog of the South, Norwood, and Masters of Atlantis-comes the reissue of a fourth truly brilliant, wonderfully…
On a trip to buy ponies, Frank Ross is killed by Torn Chancy, who shoots him down for a horse, $150 cash, and two gold pieces. Ross’ single-minded teenage daughter…
Charles Portis has long been acclaimed as one of America’s foremost comic writers.
The ultimate Portis: for the first time in one collector’s volume, the complete fiction and collected nonfiction of the author of True Grit
Rediscover a comic genius and master storyteller…
With an uncommonly astute eye for the absurd details that comprise your average American, Charles Portis brings to life Jimmy Burns, an expatriate American living in Mexico. For a time…
The #1 New York Times bestseller with over two million copies in print, now available for a whole new generation of Portis fans with discussion questions
Robert Cochran, Jr.
A pioneering study of the novels and other writings of Arkansan Charles Portis (1933-2020), best known for the novel True Grit and its film adaptations. This is a deeply insightful…
The landmark anniversary edition of the #1 New York Times bestselling classic novel, an epic and a legend (The Washington Post)
