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1 online resource (1 audio file (360 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Read by Edward Herrmann. |
| Summary |
Rarely has a literary novel so captured the hearts and minds of readers across America and the world as E. Annie Proulx's The Shipping News, winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Now we have Proulx's new novel, Accordion Crimes, a masterpiece of storytelling that spans a century and a continent. Accordion Crimes opens in 1890 in Sicily as an accordion maker completes his finest instrument and dreams of owning a music store in America. He and his eleven-year-old son, carrying little more than the 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 as it falls into the hands of various immigrants who carry it from Iowa to Texas, from Maine to Louisiana, looking for a decent life. The music is their last link with the past -- voice for their fantasies, sorrows and exuberance -- but it, too, is forced to change. Proulx's prodigious knowledge, heartbreaking characters and daring storytelling unite the sections of Accordion Crimes -- a stunning novel, exhilarating in its scope and originality. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Accordionists -- United States -- Fiction.
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Accordion -- History -- Fiction.
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Literature.
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| Genre |
Historical fiction.
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Musical fiction.
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| Added Author |
Herrmann, Edward, 1943-2014. Narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9780743540896 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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0743540891 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT11639703 |
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