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Product Details
Scribner, June 1997
Trade Paperback, 432 pages
ISBN-10: 0684831546
ISBN-13: 9780684831541
Description
E. Annie Proulx's Accordion Crimes is a masterpiece of storytelling that spans a century and a continent. Proulx brings the immigrant experience in America to life through the eyes of the descendants of Mexicans, Poles, Africans, Irish-Scots, Franco-Canadians and many others, all linked by their successive ownership of a simple green accordion. The music they make is their last link with the past -- voice for their fantasies, sorrows and exuberance. Proulx's prodigious knowledge, unforgettable characters and radiant language make Accordion Crimes a stunning novel, exhilarating in its scope and originality.
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The New Republic
In scale, in vision and in imaginative darling, Accordion Crimes uses all the range and the resources of Proulx's mature prose....She is a great novelist.
Michael Dirda
The Washington Post Book World
You would think Proulx would have the simple decency to make her third novel merely so-so, if only to let someone else grab a little limelight. No such luck...She now seems to know everything about writing. And a fair amount about life, too.
Phoebe-Lou Adams
Atlantic Monthly
Splendid...Ms. Proulx is a magician.
Gail Caldwell
Boston Sunday Globe
A daringly intelligent work with a soul as wide as the Mississippi.
Kathleen Byrne
Globe and Mail Review of Books
Crisp and authoritative, her spare, dense prose is mesmerizing ...A majestic novel.
Guardian.co.uk, March 5, 2011
...pulsing thread that pulls all these stories together, is of course the journal. It's been done before (Annie Proulx's Accordion Crimes springs to mind) but, because it grew out of love, this journal is less an object, more an entire ...
Chronicle Herald, February 27, 2011
...Literary star tells of breathtaking but high-maintenance property she bought in rural Wyoming Annie Proulx fell so in love with the 256-hectare property that she bought in Wyoming that she ignored her family’s warnings about the pitfalls ...
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