Accordion Crimes opens in 1890 in Sicily as an accordion maker completes his finest instrument - nineteen polished bone buttons, sleek lacquer - and dreams of owning a music store in America. He and his eleven-year-old son, carrying little more than the green 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 into another community of immigrants, the German Americans, founding a town in Iowa. Again, the accordion is witness to an astonishing array of tales as Beutle, Messermacher, Loats and their families make and lose fortunes in the new land. Google Books
This SIGNED first edition hardcover is in very good condition with a dust jacket that is also in very good condition. Stored in a plastic mylar sleeve for added preservation.
- Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons; 1st edition (June 19, 1996)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0684195488
- ISBN-13: 978-0684195483
- Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 1.2 x 9.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
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