I ADORE the novel Little Big Man. So different from that dopey movie!
The novel is complex - very hard on the Indians and hard on the white man. Custer is a hero in the novel - something most people would not know since his bravery and military smarts have been denigrated and suppressed.
Have you read its sequel? I have it and am slowly working myself through it.
The novel is complex - very hard on the Indians and hard on the white man. Custer is a hero in the novel - something most people would not know since his bravery and military smarts have been denigrated and suppressed.
Have you read its sequel? I have it and am slowly working myself through it.
I too am working my way through the sequel, doesn't quite have that something the original had.
One of my favorite parts of Little Big Man was the Prolog, ...by a Man of Letters. It is a perfect portrait of a modern lib writer when faced with a real man. Too funny. I am also a Western history fanatic and Little Big Man is the most authentic Western novel I have ever read, bar none. I even have some of the authentic source material that it was based upon and Berger nails the Old West like no other writer.