9780865475106
Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn share button
Evan S. Connell
Format Paperback
Dimensions 5.77 (w) x 8.32 (h) x 1.25 (d)
Pages 448
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication Date October 1997
ISBN 9780865475106
Book ISBN 10 0865475105
About Book

Custer's Last Stand is among the most enduring events in American history—more than one hundred years after the fact, books continue to be written and people continue to argue about even the most basic details surrounding the Little Bighorn. Evan S. Connell, whom Joyce Carol Oates has described as "one of our most interesting and intelligent American writers," wrote what continues to be the most reliable—and compulsively readable—account of the subject. Connell makes good use of his meticulous research and novelist's eye for the story and detail to re-vreate the heroism, foolishness, and savagery of this crucial chapter in the history of the West.

A tie-in of Connell's acclaimed bestseller, adapted by Melissa Mathison (E.T.) for a four-hour miniseries. The definitive account of the battle of LIttle Big Horn.

Reviews

From the Publisher

"Impressive in its massive presentation of information . . . Son of the Morning Star makes good reading—its prose is elegant, its tone the voice of dry wit, its meandering narrative skillfully crafted. Mr. Connell is above all a storyteller, and the story he tells is vastly more complicated than who did what to whom on June 25, 1876."—Page Stenger, The New York Times Book Review

"Son of the Morning Star leaves the reader astonished."—The Washington Post

"A scintillating book, thoroughly researched and brilliantly constructed."—The Wall Street Journal

Page Stegner

Impressive in its massive presentation of information... Son of the Morning Star makes good reading-its prose is elegant, its tone the voice of dry wit, its meandering narrative skillfully crafted. Mr. Connell is above all a storyteller, and the story he tells is vastly more complicated than who did what to whom on June 25, 1876.
The New York Times Book Review

Wall Street Journal

A scintillating book, thoroughly researched and brilliantly constructed.