Accordion Crimes
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| Author | E. Annie Proulx |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Fiction |
| Publisher | Scribner |
| Publication date | 1996 |
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| ISBN | 0-684-83154-6 |
Accordion Crimes is a 1996 novel by American writer E. Annie Proulx. It followed her Pulitzer Prize-winning 1993 work The Shipping News and was shortlisted for the 1997 Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction.[1].
The novel begins in the nineteenth century, as a Sicilian accordion-maker comes to the United States in search of better opportunities. He is shot by an anti-Italian lynch mob, and his accordion falls into the hands of several other owners, many of whom meet painful ends themselves. The accordion traverses a continent, traveling to Louisiana, Iowa, Texas, Maine, Illinois, Montana, and Mississippi. The novel ends in 1996, when a group of Florida schoolchildren throws the accordion onto a highway, where the instrument is crushed by a truck.
[edit] Note
- ^ Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction. Retrieved 23 August 2007.
[edit] External links
- Accordion Crimes at the Literary Encyclopedia
- Magill Book Review of Accordion Crimes
