Accordion Crimes
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A small green button accordion, handcrafted in Sicily and smuggled into America at the turn of the twentieth century, becomes the unlikely thread stitching together the lives of immigrants across a vast and often brutal continent — this is the daring premise at the heart of E. Annie Proulx's Accordion Crimes. The novel chronicles the instrument's passage through a century of American life, tracing its owners across communities of Mexicans in the Southwest, Cajuns in Louisiana, Polish miners in the Midwest, and Franco-Americans in the Northeast, each story a self-contained tragedy of hope, violence, and cultural erasure. Proulx writes with the same muscular, unflinching prose that distinguished The Shipping News, wielding language that is simultaneously lyrical and brutal, capturing the grinding machinery of the American immigrant experience with searing precision. Accordion Crimes is a sweeping polyphonic epic that argues, with quiet ferocity, that America's promise has always been shadowed by its capacity for cruelty — and that music, however briefly, is the one language that survives the silencing. What ultimately becomes of the little green accordion, and what it leaves in its wake, will haunt the reader long after the final note fades.
Author: E. Annie Proulx
Format: Paperback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A small green button accordion, handcrafted in Sicily and smuggled into America at the turn of the twentieth century, becomes the unlikely thread stitching together the lives of immigrants across a vast and often brutal continent — this is the daring premise at the heart of E. Annie Proulx's Accordion Crimes. The novel chronicles the instrument's passage through a century of American life, tracing its owners across communities of Mexicans in the Southwest, Cajuns in Louisiana, Polish miners in the Midwest, and Franco-Americans in the Northeast, each story a self-contained tragedy of hope, violence, and cultural erasure. Proulx writes with the same muscular, unflinching prose that distinguished The Shipping News, wielding language that is simultaneously lyrical and brutal, capturing the grinding machinery of the American immigrant experience with searing precision. Accordion Crimes is a sweeping polyphonic epic that argues, with quiet ferocity, that America's promise has always been shadowed by its capacity for cruelty — and that music, however briefly, is the one language that survives the silencing. What ultimately becomes of the little green accordion, and what it leaves in its wake, will haunt the reader long after the final note fades.