"People can not believe that a fourteen year old brat is able to leave home in the middle of winter to avenge his father's death, but in those days did not seem so extravagant, although I must admit that did not happen every day. " There is already the entire history of Grinta in his opening words: the rest is to be read (or see) in one breath, unpretentious and with great pleasure. Charles Portis writes in a way very slowly, with a practical sense of the images, the action scenes (not to be a coincidence that The Grit is made into a movie twice) and putting on a version of the flat landscape of the West that does not give much to the mythology and is fairly steeped in the violence of "frontier" which adds a heavy dose of irony. The plot is basic and one-sided because it is divided into no man's land between revenge and justice, rather fertile ground in the American West, served with cunning and blackmail, and negotiations and trigger-happy: the journey undertaken by small to avenge the murder of Mattie the father is the initiation into the wilds of the West and with the mutability of the form of bonds, subject to betrayal, head shots, lies but also sudden bursts of generosity and courage. Also because the figures of the outlaws tend to merge, are never defined, they move like shadows on a line indefinitely. The same energy has a dark and turbulent past (and not always in the right) is as dark and turbulent history of the West, shows that Charles Portis's familiar with and in a non-trivial. Many details, from the historical strands of the Civil War, the primordial chaos from which they were born the United States of America, down to the details, accurate and detailed, and the operation of weapons and their use inevitable, not to mention the melting pot and wilderness are carved in a refined way in the journey of Grit, Mattie and ranger LaBoeuf without taking even a joke to the fast pace of the story. Whose evolution is so natural and, ultimately, even in the context of obvious cliches of the West, but is not without its twists. It is true that the hounds to follow the tracks, holding up the horses and to keep weapons at hand, but it's always fate, a mirage or a failure to introduce a new leap of faith. Until the grand finale is lively, spectacular, with all the protagonists in epic conditions between charges on horseback, shooting accuracy, castanets and deadly duels. Much more can not be added because the novel, although now we know just about everything, contains many elements of surprise. Must But to say that, over the manhunt, the short tail and melancholy attention back to the Wild West show, with sheriffs and outlaws reduced to freak, a fate they shared with other American legends and remembers the end of merciless a myth dies hard.
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