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The Nic Sacco and Bart Vanzetti of Sacco and Vanzetti Must Die! are not exactly the infamous anarchists sentenced to death by the United States government. Instead, in this first novel, they are film stars, slapstick comedians - and this is the story of their rise to fame, from a seedy New York vaudeville club (where they introduce their famous knife-throwing gag) to movies and USO tours (where they open, with disastrous results, for Bob Hope). We see them choosing their roles: one will be fat, the other skinny; one will be contemplative, the other impulsive. But as their careers decline amid controversy and as the characters grow out of their on-screen roles, slapstick becomes a stand-in for anarchic freedom, and the fictional Sacco and Vanzetti begin to merge with their namesakes. In the process, we're treated to an alternate history of the twentieth century, where liberty is always just a little bit out of reach.
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Michael Lockhart
reviewed Sacco and Vanzetti Must Die! on July 21, 2009
Sacco and Vanzetti Must Die!
Seems like most of the reviews readers bothered to write about the book are generally negative, but I found it an absurdly enchanting book. The conceit - using "Sacco and Vanzetti" as a comedy team - is winning enough in its own right, and Binelli is able to sustain his clever ploy throughout. By mingling facts from the lives of the "real" S & V with those of their fictional counterparts, Binelli prompts the question: at root, isn't the impulse to throw a bomb the same as that to throw a pie?
Of particular note are the chapters framed as "scenes" from various of the comedy teams' films. In these chapters, we are offered a banal scene from an early slapstick film - say, a banquet at which a food fight will break out - but the scene is approached in a way that renders Nic (Sacco) and Bart (Vanzetti) irrepressibly human, full of doubts and frailty. (Incongruity is key to this comedy.)
I laughed a dozen times while reading the novel and it's a quick read ("speed plus incongruity equals comedy") worth your time.
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