The Return of Little Big Man - Thomas Berger Audiobook

Written by Thomas Berger
Read by Stuart Milligan
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Little Big Man Series, Book 2
Publisher: Isis AudioBooks
Release date: 2000
Duration: 20hrs 54min

Thirty-five years after the hapless, endearing Jack Crabb narrated the early years of his life among the Cheyenne Indians and Wild West ruffians in Berger’s Little Big Man the riotous epic continues.

Picking up the story after Custer’s Last Stand, Crabb (now an improbable 112 years old) is the only white survivor of the Little Big Horn and the only one equipped to straighten out the history books.

Through coincidence, design or luck (not all of it good), Jack meets a passel of frontier notables and witnesses many famous events: Wild Bill Hickock’s gunslinging stunt at the Deadwood saloon; savage Wyatt Earp’s provocation of the slaughter at the O.K. Corral; the tragic 1890 murder of his friend Sitting Bull by reservation police.

Jack’s on hand in London when the queen emerges from over a quarter century of mourning to see Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show. Annie Oakley and Mrs. Libby Custer look lovely from Jack’s whiskey-blurred point of view, but in the end he gives his heart to an educated, literary, “modern woman.” Bergman’s authority as a historian never takes itself too seriously. With masterful use of dialect and utter narrative confidence, he fully inhabits his idiosyncratic hero to create a hilarious and touching classic.

This is a not quite complete book. I edited an existing torrent taken from disk and uploaded as 17 files, sound is good and very little noise. All was fine until Chapter 16 – Her Again. It is missing about 10-20”. A track from a totally different book was spliced into the center. I was this far along so….I left a longer section of silence before finishing the chapter and finished the book.

Chapter 16 is Crabb’s re-acquaintance with Amanda and the missing section is talking about her charity work over dinner. The book doesn’t suffer for 10-20″ out of 20hrs 54min.

If you have the newer version, please upload. For now this one will do……J