Proulx's fourth novel charts a bleak emotional landscape. The story
follows the fortunes of the luckless owners of a green, two-row
button accordion, from its creator, an Italian immigrant lynched in
Louisiana in 1891, to a gaggle of black children scratching out an
existence on the edge of a rubbish tip in 1991. With dazzling
virtuosity she portrays a host of races and cultures as successive
waves of immigrants and outsiders are dashed on the rocks of
America. The delicate ornamentation of the author's prose contrasts
with the lurid tabloid-like disasters which befall her characters.
(Kirkus UK)
Accordion Crimes is a masterpiece of story-telling that spans a century and a continent. It opens in 1890 in Sicily, when an accordion maker and his son, carrying little more than his finest button accordion, begin their voyage to the teeming, violent port of New Orleans. Within a year, the accordion maker is murdered by an anti-Italian lynch mob, but his instrument carries the novel into another community of immigrants, German-Americans, founding a new town in South Dakota. Moving from South Dakota to Texas, from Montana to Maine, the nine instantly compelling and intricately connected sections of the novel illuminate the lives of the founders of a nation, descendants of Mexicans, Poles, Germans, the Irish, Scots, and Franco-Canadians. Through the music of the accordion they express their fantasies, sorrows and exuberance.
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