ACCORDION CRIMES. A Novel

by Proulx, E Annie

First Edition

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NY: Scribners, 1996 An unusual novel by the author of the award-winning "The Shipping News" which begins in 1890 and follows a Sicilian accordion-maker who has just finished making his finest instrument and dreams of immigrating to American and openg a music store. A year after arriving in tempestuous New Orleans with little more than his prized accordion and 11-year-old son, he is murdered by an anti-Italian mob. The accordion travels from hand-to-hand after falling into the community of German Americans and is witness to the rascism of turn-of-the-century America. 379 pages with occasional b&w decorations. OUT OF PRINT.. First Edition. Cloth-backed Boards. Fine/Fine Dj. Illus. by John MacDonald. 8vo.

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