Escape Velocity
- 400 páginas
- 14 horas de lectura
Though Charles Portis is best known for his fiction writing, he is also a prolific essayist, travel writer, and newspaper reporter.
Charles Portis Libros
28 de diciembre de 1933 – 17 de febrero de 2020
Charles Portis es célebre por su distintiva voz narrativa, caracterizada por un ingenio seco y agudas observaciones de la naturaleza humana. Sus obras profundizan en temas como el honor, la lealtad y la búsqueda de identidad dentro de paisajes moralmente ambiguos. Portis emplea el lenguaje de manera magistral para crear personajes inolvidables y escenarios atmosféricos que atraen a los lectores a sus historias. Su voz única y su habilidad literaria lo convierten en una figura significativa de las letras estadounidenses.
True Grit
- 235 páginas
- 9 horas de lectura
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.
The Dog of the South
- 272 páginas
- 10 horas de lectura
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.
Die mutige Mattie.
- 221 páginas
- 8 horas de lectura