SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. US Paperback.* Impression:1st. 1.3.5.7.9.10.8.6.4.2.* Date of Publication: 1997* Publisher: Scribner.* Binding and cover condition: Soft card illustrated cover, No creases to spine or hinge, minimal shelf wear. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY, Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No Annotations or Inscriptions, Very light tanning to page edges, seems un-read. VG+.* Illustrations: b/w vignettes at chapter headings.* Pages: 431 pp. text.* Product Description :- E. Annie Proulx's Accordion Crimes is a masterpiece of storytelling that spans a century and a continent. Proulx brings the immigrant experience in America to life through the eyes of the descendants of Mexicans, Poles, Africans, Irish-Scots, Franco-Canadians and many others, all linked by their successive ownership of a simple green accordion. The music they make is their last link with the past-voice for their fantasies, sorrows and exuberance.* A NEAR FINE unread copy only reduced to VG+ by very slight shelf wear and paper shading.*

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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.

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Bookseller: Cocksparrow Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 36
Title: Accordion Crimes
Author: Proulx, Annie
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - VG+/VG+
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 0684831546
ISBN 13: 9780684831541
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Place of Publication: New York USA 432
This edition first published: 1997-06
Size: 20.1 x 13.7 x 2.5 cm

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