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Accordian Crimes

by Proulx, E. Annie



  • Bookseller: Old Goat Books CA (CA)
  • Seller Inventory #: 1018357

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Book condition: VG+. Light wear on heel.
  • Jacket condition: VG+. Back DJ some wrinkling.
  • Edition: 1st edition.
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • ISBN 10: 0684195488
  • ISBN 13: 9780684195483
  • Publisher: Scribner
  • Date published: 1996
  • Pages: 381 pages.
  • Size: 6.5 x 9.5 x 1.25 inches
  • Weight: 1.4 pounds

Description

Scribner, 1996. 1st edition.. Hardcover. VG+. Light wear on heel./VG+. Back DJ some wrinkling.. Follows the history of an accordian from its creation in Sicily in 1890, on. Quarter-cloth boards. Heavy book may require more postage. Hardcover




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Book summary

This ambitious historical novel analyzes the experience of working-class Americans through the 20th century by tracing the fate of an accordion, brought to America in 1890 by a Sicilian immigrant. Annie Proulx's novel tells the successive stories of each person who acquires it, in the process providing a brief tour through American history.


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