Book Details
Title: Accordion Crimes
Author: E. Annie Proulx
Illustrator: N/A
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Year: 1996
Impression/Edition: N/A
Cover: Hardcover with Dust Jacket
Pages: 381
Dimensions: L24cm x W16cm x D3cm
Weight: 710g
ISBN: 1-85702-508-3
Battle Scars:
Very good read condition. Dust Jacket is in very good condition. Minimal wear to edges and corners. Ends of spine have minor wear, top end of spine with the most with a few wrinkles. Minor scuffing. Hardcover is of brown boards with gold embossing on the spine. Minor shelf wear to boards other than the top end of the spine where there is clear wear and a little crushing to the end. Binding is firm and intact. On the first title page there is a sweet inscription written in ink as photographed. Pages appear in good shape.
Don't forget to check the photos below for a visual and make sure you are happy prior to purchase. Happy to answer questions if there is information missing.
Book Content:
Blurb -
"This is the story of a green, two-row button accordion.
Its Sicilian maker has a vision of freedom and a future. In La Merica he'll make his fortune creating, with craft and consummate care, other accordions even better than this one.
Instead, in the swelter and din of New Orleans, he sees his hopes crash. One more loser in a sea of immigrant scum, he breaks his back daily for a squalid place to sleep. A dangerous turn of events knocks him into a dead end. The musician's tale ends badly, but the accordion's story is only beginning.
Out on the midwest prairie German farmers grind out music until a rock is thrown through the window. Its rambunctious music sounds in Cajun bayoux and a lonely Chicago tenement room. A Tex-Mex virtuoso conjunto player gives the accordion a secret and colours the hot Texas night with intricate runs. A French-Canadian orphan struggles to attain minimal competence on the instrument. A winner of the Polish Polka Playoffs, 1970, picks it up in pawn shop for small change. A Basque sheepherder plays it in the mountains, a young girl rejects it for rap.
A restless nation comes alive in Accordion Crimes. Here failure and success are juxtaposed in absurd tragicomedy. For the immigrants must pau for entrance into mainstream American life by giving up identify, name and culture, must suffer ethnic hatred and the contempt of their own children. Utterly original, entrancingly lyrical, Accordion Crimes is a novel which stays in the mind like an old song, tugs at the memory like a half-forgotten tune."
Book Details
Title: Accordion Crimes
Author: E. Annie Proulx
Illustrator: N/A
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Year: 1996
Impression/Edition: N/A
Cover: Hardcover with Dust Jacket
Pages: 381
Dimensions: L24cm x W16cm x D3cm
Weight: 710g
ISBN: 1-85702-508-3
Battle Scars:
Very good read condition. Dust Jacket is in very good condition. Minimal wear to edges and corners. Ends of spine have minor wear, top end of spine with the most with a few wrinkles. Minor scuffing. Hardcover is of brown boards with gold embossing on the spine. Minor shelf wear to boards other than the top end of the spine where there is clear wear and a little crushing to the end. Binding is firm and intact. On the first title page there is a sweet inscription written in ink as photographed. Pages appear in good shape.
Don't forget to check the photos below for a visual and make sure you are happy prior to purchase. Happy to answer questions if there is information missing.
Book Content:
Blurb -
"This is the story of a green, two-row button accordion.
Its Sicilian maker has a vision of freedom and a future. In La Merica he'll make his fortune creating, with craft and consummate care, other accordions even better than this one.
Instead, in the swelter and din of New Orleans, he sees his hopes crash. One more loser in a sea of immigrant scum, he breaks his back daily for a squalid place to sleep. A dangerous turn of events knocks him into a dead end. The musician's tale ends badly, but the accordion's story is only beginning.
Out on the midwest prairie German farmers grind out music until a rock is thrown through the window. Its rambunctious music sounds in Cajun bayoux and a lonely Chicago tenement room. A Tex-Mex virtuoso conjunto player gives the accordion a secret and colours the hot Texas night with intricate runs. A French-Canadian orphan struggles to attain minimal competence on the instrument. A winner of the Polish Polka Playoffs, 1970, picks it up in pawn shop for small change. A Basque sheepherder plays it in the mountains, a young girl rejects it for rap.
A restless nation comes alive in Accordion Crimes. Here failure and success are juxtaposed in absurd tragicomedy. For the immigrants must pau for entrance into mainstream American life by giving up identify, name and culture, must suffer ethnic hatred and the contempt of their own children. Utterly original, entrancingly lyrical, Accordion Crimes is a novel which stays in the mind like an old song, tugs at the memory like a half-forgotten tune."
