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Accordion Crimes
Accordion Crimes
Author: E. Annie Proulx
Accordion Crimes traces the long odyssey of a button accordion, an instrument made by a Sicilian who immigrates to New Orleans in 1891. Imprisoned in a round-up of Italian suspects after the political murder of the chief of police, the accordion maker is lynched, and his accordion falls into the hands of Apollo, a black steamboat ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780684195483
ISBN-10: 0684195488
Publication Date: 6/19/1996
Pages: 384
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Publisher: Scribner
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio Cassette
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