- Silent films, Motion picture actors and actresses, Comedians, Fiction
From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution “Is history reliable? Can experience be anything but subjective? Are bias and prejudice always present? These questions, and dozens of others, get tossed around in Mark Binelli’s utterly fascinating debut [in which he] reinvents a story of racial and social prejudice into a careening trip through vaudeville, screen comedy and the nuts and bolts of the perfect pie fight…
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Nostalgic, comic, relentless and open-ended.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- resolvedopen-ended
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Mark Binelli
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 353
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781564784452
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