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Search - Accordion Crimes (Audio Cassette) (Abridged)
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Accordion Crimes - Audio Cassette - Abridged Author: Rarely has a literary novel so captured the hearts and minds of readers across America and the world as E. Annie Proulx's The Shipping News, winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Now we have Proulx's new novel, Accordion Crimes, a masterpiece of storytelling that spans a century and a continent. — Acco... more » opens in 1890 in Sicily as an accordion maker completes his finest instrument and dreams of owning a music store in America. He and his eleven-year-old son, carrying little more than the accordion, voyage to the teeming, violent port of New Orleans. Within a year, the accordion maker is murdered by an anti-Italian lynching mob, but his instrument carries Proulx's story as it falls into the hands of various immigrants who carry it from Iowa to Texas, from Maine to Louisiana, looking for a decent life. The music is their last link with the past -- voice for their fantasies, sorrows and exuberance -- but it, too, is forced to change. Proulx's prodigious knowledge, heartbreaking characters and daring storytelling unite the sections of Accordion Crimes -- a stunning novel, exhilarating in its scope and originality. Read by Edward Herrmann. Abridged: 4 Cassettes, 5 hrs.
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Edward Herrmann reads, and he is wonderful.
Genres:
- Literature & Fiction >> General >> Literary
- Literature & Fiction >> General >> Contemporary
- Mystery, Thriller & Suspense >> General
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