Come to think of it, their life stories are non sequiturs. Characters tell their life stories in non sequiturs. Portis writes road stories that spend most of their time lost on the dusty detours, celebrating the unexpected and the absurd. And then I heard her laughing upstairs."Įsquire writer Ron Rosenbaum swears other writers consider Portis to be "perhaps the least-known great writer in America" and thinks he "will come to be regarded as the author of classics on the order of a 20th-century Mark Twain." This is the man of whom humorist Roy Blount said, "The way I decided whether to marry my wife: I gave her Norwood and waited. (What an appropriate publisher for such an overlooked, underrated writer-although chances are the folks at Overlook had something else in mind when they named their company.) When casual readers know the name Portis at all, which is rare, it's usually as the author of True Grit.īut in certain cultish circles, Portis is known for his deadpan comic novels Norwood (1966), The Dog of the South (1979), Masters of Atlantis (1985), and Gringos (1991)-all being reissued by Overlook Press in attractive paperback editions. Charles Portis' novels get a second shot with American readersįOUR of Charles Portis' novels are being reissued.
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