Little Big Man

“Better than Huckleberry Finn – wilder, denser, richer, funnier, more reverberant…” MID-CENTURY REVIEW “One of the very best novels of the decade and the very best ever about the American West.” NEW YORK TIMES Made into a classic film starring Dustin Hoffman. “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 call 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 the Little Bighorn. Part-farcial, part-historical, the picaresque adventures claimed by his witty, wily mythomaniac of the Wild West are spell-binding.