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| Title | : | Little Big Man (Little Big Man #1) |
| Author | : | Thomas Berger |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 422 pages |
| Published | : | May 1st 1999 by Harvill Press (first published 1964) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Westerns. Classics. Humor |
Thomas Berger
Paperback | Pages: 422 pages Rating: 4.25 | 6706 Users | 435 Reviews
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"I am a white man and never forget it, but I was brought up by the Cheyenne Indians from the age of ten."So starts the story of Jack Crabb, the 111-year old narrator of Thomas Berger's masterpiece of American fiction. As a "human being", as the Cheyenne called their own, he won the name Little Big Man. He dressed in skins, feasted on dog, loved four wives and saw his people butchered by the horse soldiers of General Custer, the man he had sworn to kill.
As a white man, Crabb hunted buffalo, tangled with Wyatt Earp, cheated Wild Bill Hickok and survived the Battle of Little Bighorn. Part-farcical, part-historical, the picaresque adventures of this witty, wily mythomaniac claimed the Wild West as the stuff of serious literature.
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| Original Title: | Little Big Man |
| ISBN: | 1860466419 (ISBN13: 9781860466410) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Little Big Man #1 |
| Setting: | United States of America |
| Literary Awards: | Audie Award for Literary Fiction & Classics (2016), Rosenthal Family Foundation Award (1965) |
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Ratings: 4.25 From 6706 Users | 435 ReviewsComment On Epithetical Books Little Big Man (Little Big Man #1)
Books as great as this one make me happy that I spend much of my reading time on older novels. I started My Big Fat Reading Project initially as a method of learning American literature. While the project has expanded to include 20th century literature in general, it is surely accomplishing that original goal. Thomas Berger, who died in 2014, was born in Cincinnati, OH, in 1924. He wrote 23 novels and though he was admired by critics and had many devoted readers, he is most widely known forThis is not "the very best novel every about American west" as the NYT claimed (years after they first panned it), but it did pave the way for some contenders like True Grit by Charles Portis, Lonesome Dove by McMurtry or take your pick from Cormac McCarthy's work (I'm partial to Blood Meridian, The Crossing and No Country for Old Men). It was meant to puncture the myth of the west, and it does that to an certain extent, though as McMurtry says in his intro to the 50th anniversary edition, myths
I don't always want to crawl inside the book I am reading but Thomas Berger has created a character I would truly like to meet in Old Lodge Skins.
Little Big Man was quite a yarn. I easily imagined it being told by Jack Crabb, centenarian. It covered the first 34 of his very eventful life, and I especially liked the time he spent among the Cheyenne, or Human Beings as they called themselves. And his frenemyships with Wild Bill Hickok and General Custer fascinated me.
I am torn between a 4 and 5, but I think it merits a 5. I will read this book again, for many reasons: 1) it is quintessentially western American, in an honest and heartrending and funny way, 2) I kind of love Jack Crabb/Little Big Man for being so honest, funny, and scarily insightful, 3) I was blown away by how both white and Indian cultures were portrayed so honestly, with the difficulties inherent to both, and 4) it was an amazingly good, powerful, fun story of a pivotal time in history. I
Have you ever been reading a book and as the end approached you were sad that the end was coming? You know eventually you are going to have to put it down. It is like the last day of a really great vacation and you know tomorrow you are back to work. It is genuinely one of the ways I know how much I liked or even loved a book. This would describe how I felt near the end of reading, Little Big Man. For me, a remarkable read.I had seen the movie before and had thoroughly enjoyed it. The title
It took me a long time to read as I slowed down and quit every time I couldn't handle what was going on. I don't have any objectivity on this subject, no space between me and the killing, so I read with dread. I loved the way the ending was written though, there was so much dignity.Jack Crabb is carried off, sort of, by Indians when he is 7 years old. He is adopted by the Cheyenne Indian Chief of this small band of Cheyenne. He lives an Indian life but never forgets he is white. In the midst of
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