Masters of Atlantis (1985) conjures the fictional cult of Gnomonism and takes an uproarious plunge into the dark heart of conspiratorial thinking and schismatic in-fighting. Ray Midge is on the road looking for the man who has run off with his car (and of somewhat less interest to him, his wife.) “no one should die without having read,” The Dog of the South (1979) is yet a third saga of pursuit, this time all the way to Central America. Portis's deadpan debut novel Norwood (1966) is, like True Grit, the story of a quest, though here the stakes are far lower: an auto mechanic from Texas embarks on a madcap journey to New York City to try and recover $70 owed to him from an Army buddy.Ī book that according to Roy Blount Jr.
Twice adapted as a film, first in a version starring John Wayne and then by the Coen Brothers, True Grit is a wonder of novelistic perfection, told in the unforgettable voice of 14-year-old Mattie Ross as she sets out to avenge her murdered father in a quest that brings her out of her native Arkansas and into the wilds of the Choctaw Nation of the 1870s. One of the great literary Westerns, it is also a novel that has invited comparison with The Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland, and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. "His fiction is the funniest I know." -Roy Blount, Jr. "No living Southern writer captures the spoken idioms of the South as artfully as Portis does." -Donna Tartt
"Like Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn and Thomas Berger’s Little Big Man, Charles Portis’s True Grit captures the naïve elegance of the American voice." -Jonathan Lethem "Charles Portis is one of the great pure pleasures available in American literature." -Ron Rosenbaum Rediscover a comic genius and master storyteller comparable to Mark Twain The ultimate Portis: for the first time in one collector's volume, the complete fiction and collected nonfiction of the author of True Grit
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