Accordion Crimes

Accordion Crimes

First edition
Author E. Annie Proulx
Country United States
Language English
Publisher Scribner
Publication date
1996
Media type Print
ISBN 0-684-83154-6
OCLC 37039967

Accordion Crimes is a 1996 novel by American writer E. Annie Proulx. It followed her Pulitzer Prize-winning 1993 work The Shipping News and was shortlisted for the 1997 Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction.[1]

Plot details

The novel begins in the nineteenth century, as a Sicilian accordion-maker comes to the United States in search of better opportunities. He is shot by an anti-Italian lynch mob, and his accordion falls into the hands of several other owners, many of whom meet painful ends themselves. The accordion traverses a continent, traveling to Louisiana, Iowa, Texas, Maine, Illinois, Montana, and Mississippi.

Theater

Accordion Crimes inspired a play called Vaarallinen Harmonikka (Dangerous Accordion) in Finland. Writer Seppo Parkkinen and director Fiikka Forsman adapted the novel for the Turku City Theater (Turun Kaupunginteatteri). The play premiered on September 9, 2011.

Notes

  1. Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction. Retrieved 23 August 2007.

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