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A successful, serious but, crack-brained burlesque of Indian mores and frontier life, this tells the story of Jack Crabb, the 111-year-old lone survivor of Custer's last stand at Little Bighorn. (Berger is the author of Crazy in Berlin and Reinhart in Love, both of which had patches of unorthodox brilliance.) The manuscript purports to be a taped memoir, during the last year of Crabb's long life. Jack, and his sister Caroline, were taken captive by the Cheyenne Indians who "tragically mistook" Caroline for a man. Caroline escapes (and later reappears as a kind of Calamity Jane) but Jack is reared by the tribe and is named Little Big Man. Deserting the Cheyenne, he later falls in with white folk and like Huck Finn, can't stand them. Back with the Indians, Jack's wife and child (Indian) are lost to him when Custer attacks their village. But later, after meeting Wild Bill Hickok, he joins Custer's Seventh Calvalry and fights beside the General he had once sworn to kill. Custer's paranoid ravings during battle as he fires his pistols from the classic West Point stance are an inventive highlight in a book with obstreperous originality. However, its greatest triumph is its ??depletion of the Cheyenne and their attitudes toward life and death. (Kirkus Reviews)
When Little Big Man was first published in 1964 it was immediately hailed as one of the finest novels ever about the American West, presenting one of the most detailed and accurate portraits of the era in fiction. Familiar myths perpetrated endlessly by film and television were effortlessly debunked. Of particular note was Berger's grand and moving portrait of a white boy brought up among the Cheyenne in the 1850s. (Kirkus UK) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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The story of Jack Crabbe, raised by both a white man and a Cheyenne chief. As a Cheyenne, Jack ate dog, had four wives and saw his people butchered by General Custer's soldiers. As a white man, he participated in the slaughter of the buffalo and tangled with Wyatt Earp. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
A successful, serious but, crack-brained burlesque of Indian mores and frontier life, this tells the story of Jack Crabb, the 111-year-old lone survivor of Custer's last stand at Little Bighorn. (Berger is the author of Crazy in Berlin and Reinhart in Love, both of which had patches of unorthodox brilliance.) The manuscript purports to be a taped memoir, during the last year of Crabb's long life. Jack, and his sister Caroline, were taken captive by the Cheyenne Indians who "tragically mistook" Caroline for a man. Caroline escapes (and later reappears as a kind of Calamity Jane) but Jack is reared by the tribe and is named Little Big Man. Deserting the Cheyenne, he later falls in with white folk and like Huck Finn, can't stand them. Back with the Indians, Jack's wife and child (Indian) are lost to him when Custer attacks their village. But later, after meeting Wild Bill Hickok, he joins Custer's Seventh Calvalry and fights beside the General he had once sworn to kill. Custer's paranoid ravings during battle as he fires his pistols from the classic West Point stance are an inventive highlight in a book with obstreperous originality. However, its greatest triumph is its ??depletion of the Cheyenne and their attitudes toward life and death. (Kirkus Reviews)
When Little Big Man was first published in 1964 it was immediately hailed as one of the finest novels ever about the American West, presenting one of the most detailed and accurate portraits of the era in fiction. Familiar myths perpetrated endlessly by film and television were effortlessly debunked. Of particular note was Berger's grand and moving portrait of a white boy brought up among the Cheyenne in the 1850s. (Kirkus UK) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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The story of Jack Crabbe, raised by both a white man and a Cheyenne chief. As a Cheyenne, Jack ate dog, had four wives and saw his people butchered by General Custer's soldiers. As a white man, he participated in the slaughter of the buffalo and tangled with Wyatt Earp. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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