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Accordion Crimes
Accordion Crimes
Author: E. Annie Proulx
Rarely has a literary novel so captured the hearts and minds of readers across America and the world as E. Annie Proulx's The Shipping News, winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Now we have Proulx's new novel, Accordion Crimes, a masterpiece of storytelling that spans a century and a continent. Accordion Cr...  more » opens in 1890 in Sicily as an accordion maker completes his finest instrument and dreams of owning a music store in America. He and his eleven-year-old son, carrying little more than the accordion, voyage to the teeming, violent port of New Orleans. Within a year, the accordion maker is murdered by an anti-Italian lynching mob, but his instrument carries Proulx's story as it falls into the hands of various immigrants who carry it from Iowa to Texas, from Maine to Louisiana, looking for a decent life. The music is their last link with the past -- voice for their fantasies, sorrows and exuberance -- but it, too, is forced to change. Proulx's prodigious knowledge, heartbreaking characters and daring storytelling unite the sections of Accordion Crimes -- a stunning novel, exhilarating in its scope and originality.
ISBN-13: 9780684832821
ISBN-10: 0684832828
Publication Date: 1/1996
Pages: 544
Rating:
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4.2 stars, based on 6 ratings
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette
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Helpful Score: 2
Powerful novel set over time and cultures surrounding one little accordian.
bananapancakes avatar reviewed Accordion Crimes on + 95 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
From the same author as The Shipping News.. great read
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Helpful Score: 1
Wonderful book, a little different but I really enjoyed it. By the author of The Shipping News.
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I could not get into this book. It was way too depressing.


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