![]() ![]() Five novels, one collection of shorter work.Īnd yet - those are all books with their champions, who would fight tooth and nail to defend the honor and relevance of their preferred book of Portis’s. With Portis, we have six books left to remember him by. Most writers of Portis’s stature could fill shelves in a library: you’d have to be an obsessive fan or a scholar to know all of Mark Twain’s works Philip Roth’s “Zuckerman” novels alone nearly outnumber Portis’s published books Toni Morrison put out nearly a dozen novels to go along with her children’s books and collected non-fiction, not to mention her work as an editor, two plays and a libretto. By that measure, the bibliography of the late Charles Portis - who died on Monday at the age of 86 - was far from huge, especially considering his influence in American literature. Five books, released over the course of 46 years. ![]()
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