Add this copy of Boston-a Documentary Novel of the Sacco-Vanzetti Case to cart. $71.50, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1978 by Bentley Publishers.
Add this copy of Boston: a Documentary Novel of the Sacco-Vanzetti Case to cart. $75.88, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1978 by Bentley Pub.
Add this copy of Boston-a Documentary Novel of the Sacco-Vanzetti Case to cart. $106.26, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1978 by Bentley Publishers.
''Boston" is a huge, unwieldy giant of a book. Its subject is the Sacco-Vanzetti case; for some people even reading that term evokes passionate feelings. Sinclair calls his work a "Documentary Novel" thus preceding Truman Capote's similarly conceived "In Cold Blood" by several decades. Into an exhaustive and exhausting account of the facts of the case, the various trials and appeals and protests, Sinclair inserts the life of an upper-class Bostonian whose husband's death frees her to explore How the Other Half Lives. Her point-of-view on the proceedings is enlightening, puts a human face on the drama and helps to ease the burden of sheer information in the book. Unfortunately, about midway, Sinclair's tone becomes strident and the reader is harrangued mercilessly about the injustices perpetrated in the case. So many withering rhetorical questions are hard to take. If nobility of intention were the only criterion for judging a book, "Boston" would get very high marks indeed. As a narrative, it is jam-packed with incident but increasingly airless.