I don’t know the tropes it relies on, or revises I don’t know the history it incorporates, or appropriates I don’t know the landscape its story moves across I don’t know what other literary characters, if any, keep company with Mattie Ross or Rooster Cogburn or Lucky Ned Pepper. When I tell you that the closest thing to a Western I’d read before True Grit was No Country for Old Men, you’ll understand how unprepared I was for Portis’s strange, surprising, action-packed yet character-driven novel. I can get all the talk I need and more at the Monarch boarding house.” They told me you had grit and that is why I came to you. I know you can drink whiskey and I have seen you kill a gray rat. All I have heard out of you so far is talk. I aim to get Tom Chaney and if you are not game I will find somebody who is game. You told me what your price for the job was and I have come up with it. I said, “I have left off crying, and giggling as well.
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