{"product_id":"haunted-mans-report-reading-charles-portis-paperback","title":"Haunted Man's Report: Reading Charles Portis - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert Cochran\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Cochran's \u003ci\u003eHaunted Man's Report\u003c\/i\u003e is a pioneering study of the novels and other writings of Arkansan Charles Portis (1933-2020), best known for the novel \u003ci\u003eTrue Grit\u003c\/i\u003e and its film adaptations. Hailed by one critic as \"the author of classics on the order of a twentieth-century Mark Twain\" and as America's \"least-known great novelist,\" Portis has garnered a devoted fan base with his ear for language, picaresque characters, literary Easter eggs, and talent for injecting comedy into even the smallest turn of phrase. As a former Marine who served on the front lines of the Korean War and as a journalist who observed firsthand the violent resistance to the civil rights movement, Portis reported on atrocities that came to inform his fiction profoundly. His novels take aim at colonialism and notions of American exceptionalism, focusing on ordinary people, often vets, searching for safe havens in a fallen world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eHaunted Man's Report\u003c\/i\u003e, a deeply insightful literary exploration of Portis's singular and underexamined oeuvre, celebrates this novelist's great achievement and is certain to prove a valuable guide for readers new to Portis as well as aficionados.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Cochran, professor of English at the University of Arkansas, serves as editor of the University of Arkansas Press's Arkansas Character series. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eVance Randolph: An Ozark Life\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Photographer of Note: Arkansas Artist Geleve Grice\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eHaunted Man's Report\u003c\/i\u003e is his first work of literary criticism since \u003ci\u003eSamuel Beckett: A Study of the Short Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e (1991).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.65 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 09, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51776248381728,"sku":"9781682262474","price":29.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/a386a8f427a2029eb96db09bab792828.webp?v=1780475352","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/haunted-mans-report-reading-charles-portis-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}