false 28001 24 Proulx found fertile, if rocky, soil for her first two novels (<i>Postcards</i> and <i>The Shipping News</i>) in the far northeastern corner of North America. In <i>Accordion Crimes</i> she ranges much further afield. The novel follows an accordion from the hands of its maker in Sicily in 1890 until it is flattened by a truck in Florida in 1996. In the intervening century it passes through the hands of a host of unlucky owners and their kin: Abelardo Relampago, who dies from the bite of a poisonous spider; Dolor Gagnon, decapitated by his own chain saw; Silvano, cut down in the jungles of Venezuela by an Indian's arrow. 2992126 17 6 1996 Accordion Crimes total:1206|5:209|4:386|3:394|2:154|1:63| 1206 4142 1625 146 5 3 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Jan 02 13:00:34 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 02 13:28:03 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 4 true false Fri Feb 08 08:28:55 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 08 17:44:37 -0800 2008 1 1 true false Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Apr 11 13:17:49 -0700 2007 Wed Apr 11 13:30:24 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 2 false false Fri Aug 01 22:16:56 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 26 14:34:27 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 01 22:16:56 -0700 2008
Halfway through this book I knew it was going to be a chore to finish. When I finally did, I felt a great burden lift off my shoulders. I am free to read better books!...more...]]> 1 2 false false Sun Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 1999 Wed Aug 13 20:30:04 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 20 17:49:43 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 2 false false Sun Aug 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 24 15:50:19 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 10 19:38:34 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 3 false false Wed Sep 05 20:12:55 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 05 20:24:25 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Oct 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 18 01:17:28 -0700 2009 Tue Nov 03 13:07:46 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false false Mon Apr 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 21 20:58:42 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 13 10:14:09 -0700 2009 1
I really don't like to give books bad reviews because I know a b...more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue May 26 17:25:35 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 17:57:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Aug 20 10:59:17 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 20 10:59:32 -0700 2009 Accordian 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 othe...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jun 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 10:59:10 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 22 04:42:16 -0700 2009 1, partially --- Anyone joining the US, or thinking about it (for historical context);
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But I only barely stayed with it.

Two reasons: first,...more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Sep 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 30 07:16:28 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 01 08:13:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Tue Sep 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 15 16:55:23 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 02 14:18:19 -0700 2008 1 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Aug 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 21 18:50:19 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 28 06:58:52 -0700 2008
I rarely read reviews or book jackets before I read the book, so I went into this with only the knowledge that it's a book by the a...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Apr 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 19 17:18:12 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 25 11:06:56 -0700 2008 The Shipping News and was interested in seeing what else Annie Proulx had written. The writing is beautiful and there is a plethora of fascinating characters in Accordion Crimes. But even though music and the little green accordion tie each of the stories together, it felt more like a book...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Aug 04 07:43:31 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 15 20:27:10 -0700 2007 accordian through the hands of U.S. immigrants. There's Italians, Poles, Mexicans, Irish, French Canadians, and others. Nice historical snapshot of what it might've been like to be an immigrant during ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Jul 08 10:13:07 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 08 10:14:01 -0700 2007 more...]]> 1 0 false false Wed Apr 05 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Sun Mar 22 09:44:56 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 10 00:24:58 -0700 2009
From back cover:

"E. Annie Proulx's 'Accordian Crimes' is a masterpiece of storytelling that spans a century and a continent. Proulx brings the immigrant experience in America to life through the eys of the descendants of Mexicans, Poles, ...more...]]>