Accordion Crimes - Hardcover

Proulx, E. Annie

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ISBN 10: 1857025083 ISBN 13: 9781857025088

Verlag: Fourth Estate, 1996

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Physical description: 381 pages ; 24 cm. Summary: 'Accordion Crimes' is a masterpiece of story-telling that spans a century and a continent. Opening in Sicily, and moving from New Orleans to 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. Subject: Immigrants - United States - Fiction. Accordion - United States - Fiction. American fiction - 20th century. United States. FICTION / Literary. Genre: Fiction, text.

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Divided into nine sections and spanning a century and a continent, this novel illuminates the lives of the founders of a nation, descendants of Mexicans, Poles, Germans, the Irish, Scots and Franco-Canadians. Through the music of the accordion they express their fantasies, sorrows and exuberance.

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Annie Proulx's books include the novel ‘The Shipping News’ and the story collection ‘Fine Just the Way It Is’. Her many honors include a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, the Irish Times International Fiction Prize and a PEN/Faulkner award. Her story ‘Brokeback Mountain’, which originally appeared in The New Yorker, was made into an Academy Award-winning film. She lives in Wyoming.

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