Little Big Man (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Thomas Berger
- First Published: 1964
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Bildungsroman, Historical fiction, Picaresque fiction, Adventure, Western fiction
- Subjects: Culture, Values, Family or family life, Memory, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, Social issues, Individuality, West, U.S., Native Americans or American Indians, Ethnic relations, Adventure, Intermarriage, Soldiers, Westerns, Satire, Battles
- Locales: United States
Little Big Man is 111-year-old Jack Crabb's account of his life from 1852, when he is ten and most of his family is killed by drunken Indians, to 1876, when he becomes the only white survivor of the Battle of the Little Bighorn. During these twenty-four years, Jack is adopted first by Old Lodge Skins, chief of a small band of Northern Cheyenne, and later by the Reverend Mr. Pendrake and his beautiful, unfaithful young wife. Leaving the Pendrakes, Jack alternates between white and Indian societies, never fitting in comfortably with either. He longs for middle-class comforts, but...
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