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'Portis' characters are painfully human; they are often complicated, sometimes plain wretched, and always worth the price of admission," writes Anne Harris of the great man's True Grit. "And his frugal comic dexterity can be so subtle as to just whisper beneath catastrophe."
"...for this trip is the inestimable Mattie Ross, a 14-year-old straight shooter from Dardenelle, Ark., who takes us into..."
March 21, 2003 Books Feature by Anne Harris