Little Big Man: A Novel

<i>&quot;The truth is always made up of little particulars which sound ridiculous when repeated.&quot;</i> So says Jack Crabb, the 111-year-old narrator of Thomas Berger's 1964 masterpiece of American fiction, <i>Little Big Man</i>. Berger claimed the Western as serious literature with this savage and epic account of one man's extraordinary double life.<br><br>After surviving the massacre of his pioneer family, ten-year-old Jack is adopted by an Indian chief who nicknames him Little Big Man. As a Cheyenne, he feasts on dog, loves four wives, and sees his people butchered by horse soldiers commanded by General George Armstrong Custer. Later, living as a white man once more, he hunts the buffalo to near-extinction, tangles with Wyatt Earp, cheats Wild Bill Hickok, and fights in the Battle of Little Bighorn alongside Custer himself - a man he'd sworn to kill. Hailed by <i>The Nation</i> as &quot;a seminal event,&quot; <i>Little Big Man</i> is a singular literary achievement that, like its hero, only gets better with age.<br><br><b>Praise for <i>Little Big Man</i></b><br> <b><i> </i></b><br> &quot;An epic such as Mark Twain might have given us.&quot;<b> - Henry Miller</b><br> <br> &quot;The very best novel ever about the American West.&quot;<b> - <i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b><br> <br> &quot;Spellbinding . . . [Crabb] surely must be one of the most delightfully absurd fictional fossils ever unearthed.&quot;<b> - <i>Time</i></b><br> <br> &quot;Superb . . . Berger's success in capturing the points of view and emotional atmosphere of a vanished era is uncanny. His skill in characterization, his narrative power and his somewhat cynical humor are all outstanding.&quot;<b> - <i>The New York Times</i></b> <br><br><br><i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i>