| Description |
215 pages ; 20 cm |
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regular print |
| Summary |
There is no knowing what lies in a man's heart. On a trip to buy ponies, Frank Ross is killed by one of his own workers. Tom Chaney shoots him down in the street for a horse, 150 cash, and two Californian gold pieces. Ross's unusually mature and single-minded fourteen-year-old daughter Mattie travels to claim his body, and finds that the authorities are doing nothing to find Chaney. Then she hears of Rooster - a man, she's told, who has grit - and convinces him to join her in a quest into dark, dangerous Indian territory to hunt Chaney down and avenge her father's murder |
| Analysis |
Western stories |
| Notes |
Film tie-in |
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Originally published: London: Cape, 1969; New York: Simon & Schuster, 1968 |
| Subject |
Teenage girls -- Fiction.
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Fathers -- Death -- Fiction.
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United States marshals -- Fiction.
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Outlaws -- Fiction.
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Revenge -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Western fiction.
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Reading nook.
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Fiction.
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| Author |
Tartt, Donna.
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| ISBN |
9781408814000 (paperback) |
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1408814005 (paperback) |
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