[Little Big Man 01] • Little Big Man

*“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***

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“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*** 

*From the Trade Paperback edition.*