Accordion crimes / E. Annie Proulx
1996, First Edition. London : Fourth Estate. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #229953
ISBN: 1857025083
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.
Price: €12.95