Charles Portis

• Jun-1968
• / Historical
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Pursuing a cunning murderer who has escaped with his band deep into Indian Territory, U.S. Marshal Rooster J. Cogburn teams up with a bounty-hunting Texas Ranger and a cantankerous youth who is bent on revenge. Reissue....

• Jun-1979
• / General Fiction
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Ray Midge's wife, Norma, has run away with her creep of a first husband. She also ran away with Midge's credit cards and his Ford Torino -- in place of which she left her lover's 1963 Buick Special, a compact car with 14,000 miles on it and a quarter...

• Sep-1985
• / General Fiction
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Sent on a mission to New York he gets involved in a wild journey that takes him in and out of stolen cars, freight trains, and buses. By the time he returns home to Texas, Norwood has met his true love, Rita Lee, on a bus; befriended the second short...

• Jan-1991
• / General Fiction
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Charles Portis’s fourth novel -- a truly brilliant, wonderfully bizarre novel by one of our great American novelists. Jimmy Burns is an expatriate American living in Mexico who has an uncommonly astute eye for the absurd little details that compris...

• Apr-2000
• / General Fiction
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Charles Portis's quintessential comic masterpiece centers on Lamar Jimmerson, leader of the Gnomon Society, the international fraternal order dedicated to preserving the arcane wisdom of the lost city of Atlantis. Stationed in France in 1917, Jimmers...

• Oct-2012
• / General Fiction
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Collected here in Escape Velocity, edited by Jay Jennings, is his "miscellany" †“†“ journalism, short fiction, memoir, and even the play Delray's New Moon, published for the first time in this volume. Ã, Portis covers topics as varied as...