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Accordion Crimes is alive with vividly drawn characters who sometimes meet violent, strange ends, and who, at other times, succeed in a hard world. Filled with indelible images, Proulx's latest novel is charged with sardonic wit and is, at different turns, darkly hilarious and heartbreakingly sad. What we see as the accordion weakens and disintegrates is a haunting and ominous sense of what is America.
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The third novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News, Accordion Crimes spans generations, continents and a century and confirms the hallucinatory power of Proulxs writing. Accordion Crimes is a masterpiece of story-telling that spans a century and a continent. It opens in 1890 in Sicily, when an accordion-maker and his son, carrying little more than his finest button accordion, begin their voyage to the teeming, violent port of New Orleans. Within a year, the accordion-maker is murdered by an anti-Italian lynch mob, but his instrument carries the novel into another community of immigrants: German-Americans founding a new town in South Dakota. Moving from South Dakota to Texas, from Montana to Maine, the nine instantly compelling and intricately connected sections of the novel illuminate the lives of the founders of a nation, descendants of Mexicans, Poles, Germans, Irish, Scots and Franco-Canadians. Through the music of the accordion they express their fantasies, sorrows and exuberance. A novel set in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Sicily and America, in which an accordion maker and his son travel to New Orleans carrying little more than a fine button accordion. Within a year the accordion maker is killed, but his creation lives on in the hands of other immigrants. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781857025750
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The third novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News, Accordion Crimes spans generations, continents and a century and confirms the hallucinatory power of Proulxs writing. Accordion Crimes is a masterpiece of story-telling that spans a century and a continent. It opens in 1890 in Sicily, when an accordion-maker and his son, carrying little more than his finest button accordion, begin their voyage to the teeming, violent port of New Orleans. Within a year, the accordion-maker is murdered by an anti-Italian lynch mob, but his instrument carries the novel into another community of immigrants: German-Americans founding a new town in South Dakota. Moving from South Dakota to Texas, from Montana to Maine, the nine instantly compelling and intricately connected sections of the novel illuminate the lives of the founders of a nation, descendants of Mexicans, Poles, Germans, Irish, Scots and Franco-Canadians. Through the music of the accordion they express their fantasies, sorrows and exuberance. A novel set in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Sicily and America, in which an accordion maker and his son travel to New Orleans carrying little more than a fine button accordion. Within a year the accordion maker is killed, but his creation lives on in the hands of other immigrants. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781857025750