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Little Big Man is a 1964 novel by American author Thomas Berger. Often described as a satire or parody of the western genre, the book is a modern example of picaresque fiction.
Sep 1, 1989 · 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.
Little Big Man, while retaining that satirical bite, is historical fiction. Set in the mid-1800s on America's Great Plains, still very much the Wild West, it is the life story of Jack Crabb who is looking back from the age of 111.
It tells the story of Jack Crabbe, who claims to be the only white survivor of the battle of the Little Big Horn (Custer's Last Stand). When the wagon train Jack's family belonged to is attacked by Indians, jack is taken in and raised as one of the tribe by their leader Old Lodge Skins.
- Thomas Berger
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.
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,...
Apr 27, 2011 · 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.
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...
Aug 25, 2015 · From kidnapped child to Cheyenne brave to General Custer’s aide, no hero in the West had such a time as Little Big Man. Jack Crabb sits in his nursing home, 111 years old and ready to spin a...
Little Big Man. Thomas Berger. Fawcett Crest, Dec 12, 1981 - Fiction - 447 pages. I am a white man and never forget it, but I was brought up by the Cheyenne Indians from the age of ten. So...
