Charles Portis Książki

Though Charles Portis is best known for his fiction writing, he is also a prolific essayist, travel writer, and newspaper reporter.

Pursuing a murderer who has escaped into Indian Territory, U.S. Marshal Rooster J. Cogburn teams up with a bounty-hunting Texas Ranger and Mattie Ross, a cantankerous young lady who is bent on revenge.

1917 France, Lamar Jimmerson finds a little book of Atlantean puzzles, Egyptian riddles, alchemical metaphors, and the Codex Pappus said to be the sacred Gnomonic text. He expands the noble brotherhood, survives scandalous schism, bids for governor of Indiana, and sees Gnomons gather in East Texas mobile home. This is an America of misfits and con men, oddballs and innocents.

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 credit card receipts.

"Čovjek zvani hrabrost" je priča o četrnaestogodišnjakinji Mattie Ross kojoj je Tom Chaney ubio oca zbog konja i 150 dolara. Ona napušta svoj dom da bi osvetila oca i zato angažira ozloglašenog federalnog šerifa Roostera Cogburna te oni zajedno kreću u potragu za ubojicom na opasnom indijanskom teren. Poput glavne junakinje, i roman je direktan, zabavan i beskompromisan.