9780684831541
Accordion Crimes
E. Annie Proulx
ISBN 13: 9780684831541
Publisher: Scribner
Publication Date: 1997
Binding: Softcover
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A button accordion brought to New Orleans in 1890 by a Sicilian immigrant finds its way into the lives, dreams, fantasies, sorrows, and intimacies of men and women of other immigrant groups in South Dakota, Texas, Montana, Maine and elsewhere.
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"...'Accordion Crimes' is by no means a depressing book. Instead it seems properly clear-eyed, even shrewd with peasant wisdom....We must, it seems, find pleasure where we can, while we can--in food, in drink, love, music, stories. All these, of course, 'Accordion Crimes' supplies with the exuberant and loving excess of a good Polish wedding."
Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World, 06/16/1996
Review:"...[A] panoramic mosaic of the immigrant experience in 20th-century America that confirms [Proulx's] oft-noted similarity to Steinbeck--and offers the most comprehensive survey of working-class life since Dos Passos's 'U.S.A.' trilogy....Proulx's point is that America's underclass...is especially vulnerable and (here we see her daring) prone to angry confrontation and early death. She faces it unflinchingly, and the results are grim, depressing, and memorable."
Kirkus, 04/01/1996
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Book Description: 1997. Paperback. Book Condition: New. 135mm x 24mm x 204mm. Paperback. E. Annie Proulx's "Accordion Crimes" is a masterpiece of storytelling that spans a century and a continent. Proulx brings the immigrant experience in America to life through.Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. 432 pages. 0.358. Bookseller Inventory # 9780684831541 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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Book Description: SIMON SCHUSTER, United States, 1997. Paperback. Book Condition: New. Reprinted edition. 178 x 111 mm. Brand New Book. 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 Crimes" 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. Bookseller Inventory # AAS9780684831541 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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