...TRUE GRIT, TRUE GRIT AND MORE TRUE GRIT!
We have some AMAZING True Grit-related prizes that we’ll be giving away to our wonderful Overlook readers over the next few days to get you as excited as we are about the new Coen Brothers film that’s getting some great early reviews, as well as the classic Charles Portis novel from which the film was adapted.
First, congratulations to Heather B, Jenna! and Don, winners of yesterday's contest. They'll each receive a signed copy of the amazing DRAWING IS THINKING by art and design legend Milton Glaser.
Now, onto today's contest. We've never done ANYTHING like this before, but we're beyond thrilled to be offering you a chance to win these amazing prizes tied into the new film release of True Grit. You could win:
TICKETS TO AN ADVANCE SCREENING OF TRUE GRIT IN NYC: Unfortunately, this is only open to our New York City-area readers. But get two FREE passes to the ADVANCE True Grit screening on December 14 at 7 p.m.!
OUR TRUE GRIT BONANZA PACKAGE: Copies of True Grit (the brand-new movie tie-in edition and the limited-edition Hollywood hardcover), a True Grit movie poster, and 2 movie passes you can use to see True Grit in a convenient theatre at your leisure.
And 5 winners will receive a copy of the new movie tie-in edition of True Grit!
TO WIN: Tell us why you love TRUE GRIT, the book, or are excited to read it! Enter through Facebook, Twitter, or by commenting here. You can also enter by sending us a link to your blog where you have an entry about TRUE GRIT (email a link to kgales at overlookny dot com). That means each person can enter up to four times. PLEASE indicate if you are able to see the advance screening in NYC on the 14th so you are entered into that part of this contest. (For Twitter, given the character limits, just tag #truegritnyc for the screening or #truegritbook for the rest of the prizes.)
The NYC winner will be announced on Monday 12/13 and the Bonanza Package/book winners will be announced on Thursday, December 16. NYC entrants who did not win the screening tickets are still eligible for our other prizes. GOOD LUCK! And happy True Grit-reading!
Previously:
Autographed Drawing is Thinking
Nonesuch Dickens Christmas Books
Autographed Bliss, Remembered
Penny Vincenzi novels
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I read "True Grit" for the first time when I was in high school, simply because I was intrigued by the cover. The sad, solemn portrait of a young girl standing with a horse's reins in one hand, a rifle in the other. I have read the book several times since then. I am lucky enough to live in Arkansas, where much of the story took place and have visited Fort Smith and Yell and Dardanelle counties. Besides "To Kill A Mockingbird's" Scout Finch, I consider Mattie Ross one of the greatest role models in literature for a young girl. I hope to win this prize so I can give the book to my daughters and have them read it and hopefully enjoy it as much as I do.
Hi Psych TLC! Email links to kgales at overlookny dot com. Thanks for participating!
I would love to read the book because the movie sounds great. I always enjoy reading a book before seeing the movie adaptation.
This is now on my TBR list! Hope to win a copy.
Why do I love TRUE GRIT? First there is the deadpan of Mattie’s voice, and that she considers Woodrow Wilson the greatest Presbyterian gentleman of the age. There is that when you wonder if she will really pull the trigger on Chaney, she does. There is the humor that runs through the book and can make a reader laugh out loud even though there’s hardly a joke in sight. Finally there is the toughness of the ending. Porter doesn’t pull the punch! All the quirks and obsessions that make Mattie and Cogburn and La Boeuf such great characters also, one imagines, makes life harder for them at times than it is for everyone else, and Porter doesn’t let them or us dodge that point. Mattie goes off and sees Chaney killed, but twenty-five years later it’s Little Frank who gets to have a normal life and a family. It’s a tough ending, but it enriches all that has come before it.
I've never read True Grit. Of course, growing up as a child in the 70's, the image of a craggy, eye-patched John Wayne was a fairly identifiable piece of pop-culture iconography. I grew up with tv and movie westerns, Gunsmoke, the Big Valley, Bonanza, the John Ford/Wayne canon, spaghetti westerns, all pretty much until Star Wars and Close Encounters in 1977 knocked me headlong into science fiction and fantasy worship.
Perhaps it's my age (likely). Perhaps it's some growing conservatism (less likely), but more likely, it is a response to my decade of living in New York City and the pace, and perhaps the lack of an identifiable horizon. I think I'm longing for a time where you got somewhere when you got there, and the rides, though they be long, held the promise of a boarding house to get cleaned up, a saloon to take a drink, and maybe a town to save from a black hatted gunslinger. I'm not fooling myself that the times were any simpler or less problematic than our own, but I revel in the escapism, and the western is the closest we in the US come to having our own Illiad and Odyssey.
Sadly, even though I live in NYC, I am not able to make it to a screening on that day. Don't enter me for the 14th, leave the passes available for someone else. I'll be seeing it soon enough.
We are excited to see the Coen Bros. next work of art and cannot wait to read the book that inspired them.
I haven't read True Grit but it's been on my to-read list for a while and now I have to read it before seeing the movie. It's just such a classic, and I love that it has such a tough female main character in Mattie. I like seeing a girl who can kick some serious butt.
I just became interested in reading True Grit after an article I read this week, about how even the much-revered John Wayne film version is a pale shadow of the greatness that is the book. We plan to take my father-in-law to see the movie over Christmas, and I'd really love to read the book.
(I forgot to mention: No NYC for me.)
Not sure if this is still open, but I would love the Bonanza package. I haven't read the book or seen the movie, but I have wanted to from the moment it came on my radar.
Hi all! In case you didn't see our update, our grand prize winner is WORDLILY and PsychTLC and Brian F from the comments will also receive copies of the book! Email kgales at overlookny dot com with your mailing address so we can send you your books :) Thanks!!!
Yes, I'm so excited! Just emailed my address. :D
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