![]() and the world beyond told us), and we kept stacks of those new editions on the Recommends table as they were published. That's what customers from all over the U.S. At that time, I was working at LAX in Los Angeles in the English-speaking-world's best airport bookstore (day in day out, surprised and delighted by the depth and breadth of our inventory, ![]() I had read and loved True Grit, but knew nothing of his other books. Judging from many of the comments, Tartt's advocacy here is introducing Portis to the uninitiated the way I was by the articles and blurbs of Ron Rosenbaum and Roy Blount Jr., when The Overlook Press re-issued all of Portis's novels in paperback twenty years ago. ![]()
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