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�The truth is always made up of little particulars which sound ridiculous when repeated.� 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.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. Later, living as a white man once more, he hunts the buffalo to near-extinction, tangles with Wyatt Earp, cheats Wild Bill Hickok, and fights in the Battle of Little Bighorn alongside Custer himself�a man he�d sworn to kill. Hailed by The Nation as �a seminal event,� Little Big Man is a singular literary achievement that, like its hero, only gets better with age.Praise for Little Big Man � �An epic such as Mark Twain might have given us.��Henry Miller � �The very best novel ever about the American West.��The New York Times Book Review � �Spellbinding . . . [Crabb] surely must be one of the most delightfully absurd fictional fossils ever unearthed.��Time � �Superb . . . Berger�s success in capturing the points of view and emotional atmosphere of a vanished era is uncanny. His skill in characterization, his narrative power and his somewhat cynical humor are all outstanding.��The New York Times�From the Trade Paperback edition.