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A review by richardwells
Little Big Man by Thomas Berger
5.0
Haven't seen the movie, and a long time coming to the book. It was worth the wait. I'd put it on the shelf with Lonesome Dove if it weren't in a kindle edition and from the library to boot.
Little Big Man, a.k.a., Jack Crabbe, or Jack Crabbe, a.k.a., Little Big Man covers 34 years in the life of this Zelig like character, and culminates at the Little Big Horn. Berger and McMurtry both hoped to bust the myth of the American West, they fail, and in failing create a new mythology, a little less worn than the old, possibly closer to truth, but no less exciting.
This book is hilarious, elegiac, fantastic, and totally believable, even as it's narrated by a 112 year old white man who spend most of his life living with the Cheyenne.
High praise: good tale, well told.
Little Big Man, a.k.a., Jack Crabbe, or Jack Crabbe, a.k.a., Little Big Man covers 34 years in the life of this Zelig like character, and culminates at the Little Big Horn. Berger and McMurtry both hoped to bust the myth of the American West, they fail, and in failing create a new mythology, a little less worn than the old, possibly closer to truth, but no less exciting.
This book is hilarious, elegiac, fantastic, and totally believable, even as it's narrated by a 112 year old white man who spend most of his life living with the Cheyenne.
High praise: good tale, well told.