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Escape Velocity

A Charles Portis Miscellany

Escape Velocity( )
Editor: Jennings, Jay
Author: Portis, Charles
ISBN:978-1-935106-50-0
Publication Date:Oct 2012
Publisher:University of Arkansas Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $27.95
Book Description:

For those who care about literature or simply love a good laugh (or both), Charles Portis has long been one of America's most admired novelists. His 1968 novel True Grit is fixed in the contemporary canon, and four more have been hailed as comic masterpieces. Now, for the first time, his other writings - journalism, travel stories, short fiction, memoir, and even a play - have been brought together in Escape Velocity.

Book Details
Pages:380
Detailed Subjects: Literary Collections / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6 x 9 x 1 Inches
Author Biography
Portis, Charles (Editor)
Charles Portis lives in Arkansas, where he was born (1933) and educated. Portis served as a reporter for the New York Herald-Tribune and was also its London bureau chief. His first novel, Norwood, was published in 1966. His other novels are True Grit, The Dog of the South, Masters of Atlantis, and Gringos.

True Grit has been made into a movie two times, once in 1969 with John Wayne (who won his only academy award by playing the main character of Rooster Cogburn), and a second time in 2010 with Jeff Bridges as the main character. Mr. Bridges was nominated for the Rooster Cogburn role, but did not win.

Charles Portis died on February 17, 2020 in Little Rock, Arkansas at age 86. He had been under hospice care for two years. 030



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