Little Big Man - Brossura

Berger, Thomas

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1860466419 ISBN 13: 9781860466410

Casa editrice: Vintage Classics, 1999

Riassunto

'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.

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Recensione:

"A seminal event in the most significant cultural and literary trend of the 1960s... Few creative works of post-Civil War America have had as much of the fibre and blood of national experience in them" (Nation)

"One of the best novels of the decade and the best novel ever about the American West" (New York Times)

Descrizione del libro:

‘An epic such as Mark Twain might have given us... a delicious, crazy, panoramic element...’ Henry Miller

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• Editore: Vintage Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1860466419
• ISBN 13: 9781860466410
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 448