num_pages: 422
description: "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.
language: English
title: Little Big Man
titlecomplete: Little Big Man
genres: Adventure, Historical Fiction, Historical, Novels, Native Americans, Literature, Classics, Westerns, Fiction, Humor
ratings_count: 8004
places: The United States of America
series: Little Big Man
awards: awardedAt: 1451635200000
name: Audie Award
category: Literary Fiction & Classics, awardedAt: -157737600000
name: Rosenthal Family Foundation Award
publisher: Harvill Press