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 Bergers 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.
خواندن متن اصلی انگلیسی
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 Bergers 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.
شناسنامهٔ کتاب
- تعداد صفحات
- ۴۲۲
- زبان
- English
- ناشر
- Harvill Press
- شابک
- 9780000000000
مکان روایت
- United States of America
ایالات متحده آمریکا
جوایز
- Audie Award for Literary Fiction & Classics (2016)
- Rosenthal Family Foundation Award (1965
