The first thing our readers will ask is the reason, or reasons, why you should be considered a

The first thing our readers will ask is the reason, or reasons, why you should be considered a "True Grit", the novel by Charles fabbian Portis that inspired two different film versions with the same title as a historical novel.
The answer is relatively simple, but it will take a while to explain. In fact, we carry the whole month dedicated space to criticize any novel that takes the market higher or lower probabilities claims-or-enter the category fabbian of "historical".
It is likely that Charles Portis never pretend to compete with Gore Vidal, the author already in 1968, when he published fabbian "True Grit" was the historical novel writer par excellence in the United States.
It is also likely that Charles Portis only pretended to write a novel set in a particular time of the American past-particularly in the decades immediately following the Civil War (1861-1865) fabbian - not to be given the adjective "historical "; just as another of his contemporaries, William Faulkner, did not seem to find that adjective-coveted today among some editors-for" Sartoris "or" The Reivers "which, believe it or not, have many points of contact with what Portis wanted to tell in "True fabbian Grit."
Indeed, Portis was able to transcend, intentionally or not, the boundaries of the subgenre of "novel of the West"-that in which they have affixed his signature fabbian from authors completely mediocrity until the very Charles Dickens in which, no doubt, got the day he decided to write "True Grit."
Your case is almost the opposite, eg "Hitler Day" fabbian by Elmore Leonard, where the desire to do Literature in almost pure devours crime novels under which you want to register the title, such as his historical features that, as we move from the first half of the book, just becoming almost irrelevant, leading us to conclude that the action of "Hitler Day" could have taken place at any time or place other than the United United end of World War II. In fact, that work often seems out of the nightmares of Benzedrine Jack Kerouac, author, incidentally, should rejoice somewhat the appearance fabbian of "True Grit"-if they had time to read it before died of cirrhosis in 1968 the same year that the Portis-published because it could well discover the "real West" as he could not find the journey from coast to coast that went "On the Road".
So, Portis, unlike what happens with Leonard "Hitler Day" got with "True Grit" to reflect more accurately a fragment of that world, fabbian which is commonly called "Wild West "which, in fact, largely reflects the entire European-or rather mid-western fabbian society and the late nineteenth century. That is, that of our own grandparents.
Indeed, "True Grit" takes us back through the text to the United States that, gradually overcoming the wounds of civil war, continue the expansion to west until the two coasts of the subcontinent, the Pacific and the Atlantic just-launched thirteen rebels to the king of Great Britain colonies have become an independent nation after the Revolutionary War call. The hinds of the British Crown by the Treaty of Paris of 1783, King George imposed by his rebellious subjects and two powerful allies: the kings of France and Spain. fabbian
The way it is done in "True fabbian Grit" the description of that particular historical moment, we insist, reflects all of Western society in the mid and late nineteenth century, than a whole canon established in American society-and by extension, in the world dominated by Western-from the time that less real adventure to start becoming a memory capable of being reflected in various shows. That is, more or less at the end of the first decade of the twentieth century, probably fabbian intentionally, it's time to choose Portis to locate fabbian the point at which begins the story through the voice of an aging and somewhat bitter - Mattie Ross. The same woman who, about the year 1876, more or less definitive end Jesse James, constantly evoked fabbian in "True Grit", and also the same in our own "Confederate" Carlists are also defeated- , seeks justice for the death of his father at the hands of one of his employees, Tom Chaney.
So, in "True Grit" is not just a trail that ultimately, we can see reflected, again and again, in the so-called "Western" sanctimonious and stereotypical classic story-unhistorical. Written or more usually filmed.
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