Accordion Crimes

Accordion Crimes

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name = Accordion Crimes


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author = E. Annie Proulx
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country = United States
language = English
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genre = Fiction
publisher = Scribner
release_date = 1996
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media_type = Print
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isbn = 0-684-83154-6
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"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. [ [http://www.orangeprize.co.uk/opf/archive.php4 Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction] . Retrieved 23 August 2007.]

Plot Details

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.

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External links

*" [http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=6861 Accordion Crimes] " at the Literary Encyclopedia
* [http://www.enotes.com/salem-lit/accordion-crimes Magill Book Review] of "Accordion Crimes"


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