"How to describe the indescribable? Probably the best description I can give of True Grit is that I've never given it to any reader -- male or female, of any age or sensibility -- who didn't enjoy it." --Donna Tartt, New York Times Book Review
"Skillfully constructed, a comic tour de force."--New York Times Book Review
"Quite simply, an American masterpiece."--Boston Globe
"Rollicking . . . a beaut narrated in the unforgettable voice of Mattie Ross . . . Portis has crazy-cool literary swagger."--Entertainment Weekly
"Charles Portis is an original, indescribable sui generis talent . . . Rereading Portis is one of the great pure pleasures--both visceral and cerebral--available in modern American literature."--Ron Rosenbaum, Esquire
"It's possible that True Grit is the genuine article--a book so strong that it reads as myth."--Ed Park, The Believer
"Charles Portis's True Grit is a masterpiece."--Anthony Bourdain, New York Times Book Review
"The dialogue in True Grit is exquisite."--David Mamet, The Week
"I've always thought Charles Portis had a wonderful talent--original, quirky, exciting."--Larry McMurtry
"An epic and a legend."--Washington Post
"Charles Portis's True Grit captures the naive elegance of the American Voice."--Jonathan Lethem