![]() ![]() The portraits of the offbeat America he encounters along the way, peopled by misfits and oddballs, are enthralling from the book’s opening sentence. In Norwood (1966) a mechanic from Texas sets out on a madcap journey to New York City to get back $70 owed to him from an Army buddy. This definitive Library of America collection brings together all the novels, including the classic Western True Grit, along with Portis’s complete stories and a generous selection of his journalism and essays. ![]() In five novels published over twenty-five years, Portis refined a signature deadpan style in plots full of picaresque adventure, unforgettable characters, and rich humor. ![]() There, working in relative obscurity, he would write the books that led critic Ron Rosenbaum to call him the “least-known great writer” in America. In 1964 Charles Portis left a promising career as a newspaper reporter in New York and London to return to his native Arkansas. ![]()
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