Accordion Crimes
by Proulx, E. Annie
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine, 1st UK edition (same year as US), unclipped d/j (a little bumped at top), black boards, silver spine titling bright; text
- ISBN 10
- 1857025083
- ISBN 13
- 9781857025088
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About This Item
London: Fourth Estate, 1996. 1st UK. hardback. Fine, 1st UK edition (same year as US), unclipped d/j (a little bumped at top), black boards, silver spine titling bright; text block firm, pages unmarked and crisp.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). 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. Divided into nine sections and spanning a century, 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.
Synopsis
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.
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- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC131897
- Title
- Accordion Crimes
- Author
- Proulx, E. Annie
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine, 1st UK edition (same year as US), unclipped d/j (a little bumped at top), black boards, silver spine titling bright; text
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st UK
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1857025083
- ISBN 13
- 9781857025088
- Publisher
- Fourth Estate
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1996
- Pages
- 381
- Keywords
- 1st, fiction, Proulx, historical fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
- X weight
- 0.7 g
- Size
- 8vo (230 x 150 / 9\"\" x 6\"\")
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