Little Big Man

By: Thomas Berger

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Paperback | 1 September 1989 | Edition Number 1

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"The truth is always made up of little particulars which sound ridiculous when repeated." So says Jack Crabb, the 111-year-old narrator of Thomas Berger's 1964 masterpiece of American fiction, Little Big Man. Berger claimed the Western as serious literature with this savage and epic account of one man's extraordinary double life.

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 The Nation as "a seminal event," Little Big Man is a singular literary achievement that, like its hero, only gets better with age.

Praise for Little Big Man

"An epic such as Mark Twain might have given us."-Henry Miller

"The very best novel ever about the American West."-The New York Times Book Review

"Spellbinding . . . [Crabb] surely must be one of the most delightfully absurd fictional fossils ever unearthed."-Time

"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."-The New York Times

Industry Reviews

"An epic such as Mark Twain might have given us."--Henry Miller

"The very best novel ever about the American West."--The New York Times Book Review

"Spellbinding . . . [Crabb] surely must be one of the most delightfully absurd fictional fossils ever unearthed."--Time

"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."--The New York Times

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Introduction	p. xi
Foreword	p. xix
A Terrible Mistake	p. 1
Boiled Dog	p. 21
I Make an Enemy	p. 35
Pronghorn Slaughter	p. 45
My Education as a Human Being	p. 51
A New Name	p. 65
We Take on the Cavalry	p. 79
Adopted Again	p. 97
Sin	p. 109
Through the Shutter	p. 123
Hopeless	p. 137
Going for Gold	p. 143
Cheyenne Homecoming	p. 157
We Get Jumped	p. 173
Union Pacific	p. 187
My Indian Wife	p. 205
In the Valley of the Washita	p. 223
The Big Medicine of Long Hair	p. 243
To the Pacific and Back	p. 265
Wild Bill Hickok	p. 279
My Niece Amelia	p. 295
Bunco and Buffalo	p. 311
Amelia Makes Good	p. 329
Caroline	p. 341
Custer Again	p. 353
Trailing the Hostiles	p. 367
Greasy Grass	p. 381
The Last Stand	p. 401
Victory	p. 415
The End	p. 431
Editor's Epilogue	p. 439
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