EBOOK Little Big Man
Opis
A Novel
&';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 himselfa 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 TimesFrom the Trade Paperback edition.
&';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 himselfa 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 TimesFrom the Trade Paperback edition.