Accordion Crimes by Annie Proulx (1996)

$35.00

Good, tight square unmarked copy in average to good dust-jacket.

First edition/first impression

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.

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 LouisianaIowaTexasMaineIllinoisMontana, and Mississippi.

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