Accordion crimes
Annie Proulx  
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Maison d'édition:Scribner
Genre:Littérature
Pages:384
ASIN:0684195488
ISBN:9780684195483
Format:Hardcover
Édition:1st printing
Date de parution:1996-06-19
Dimensions:1.30 x 9.40 x 6.40 in
Date de l'ajout:2010-09-04
Prix:CDN$ 33.00
Appréciation:3.0 (52 voix)
Résumé: Proulx found fertile, if rocky, soil for her first two novels ("Postcards" and "The Shipping News") in the far northeastern corner of North America. In "Accordion Crimes" she ranges much further afield. The novel follows an accordion from the hands of its maker in Sicily in 1890 until it is flattened by a truck in Florida in 1996. In the intervening century it passes through the hands of a host of unlucky owners and their kin: Abelardo Relampago, who dies from the bite of a poisonous spider; Dolor Gagnon, decapitated by his own chain saw; Silvano, cut down in the jungles of Venezuela by an Indian's arrow.