Accordion Crimes

Proulx, E. Annie

ISBN 10: 0684195488 / ISBN 13: 9780684195483

Published by Scribner, Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A., 1996

About this Item

SIGNED Limited Edition. Signed and numbered. No. 1,301 of 2500. Full # sequence. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Back of Jacket states "Limited Signed Edition Not For Sale. New copy. Never read. Not price clipped. Not a remainder. Front board is flaring up about 1/8". Autograph page has a crease in the top right hand corner. Same page has some red spots on the page edges. Bookseller Inventory # 000849

Bibliographic Details

Title: Accordion Crimes

Publisher: Scribner, Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.

Publication Date: 1996

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition:New

Dust Jacket Condition: New

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

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. 350,000 first printing.

Review:

Proulx found fertile, if rocky, soil for her first two novels (Postcards and The Shipping News) in the far northeastern corner of North America. In Accordion Crimes she ranges much further afield. The novel follows an accordion from the hands of its maker in Sicily in 1890 until it is flattened by a truck in Florida in 1996. In the intervening century it passes through the hands of a host of unlucky owners and their kin: Abelardo Relampago, who dies from the bite of a poisonous spider; Dolor Gagnon, decapitated by his own chain saw; Silvano, cut down in the jungles of Venezuela by an Indian's arrow.