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)
'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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