Accordion Crimes by Annie Proulx

Accordion Crimes by Annie Proulx

The third novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News, Accordion Crimes spans generations, continents and a century and confirms the hallucinatory power of Proulxs writing.

‘This novel confirms Proulx as one of the greatest American writers’ Independent

‘The detail is breathtaking, her ear for dialogue matchless, her observation unsentimental, her pace infectious. She tackles death, sex and the gruesome with black hilarity and the skills of a born storyteller. Rich and dense, “Accordion Crimes” is a splendid novel.’ The Times

‘Annie Proulx has written an epic social history of America and the plight of the immigrant, which is astonishing in its breadth, heroic in the scale of its ambition and brilliant in its manner of realising them.’ Daily Mail

‘The glorious richness of the language continually makes you pause in wonder, the details pile up and surround you.’ Scotsman

‘Her range and scope are tremendous, shuttling through the warp of multiple cultures and spanning, by the end, a hundred years. And it is the range of detail that grips, richly concrete.’ Spectator

‘Vigorous, salty and extraordinary.’ The Times

Annie Proulx published her first novel ‘Postcards’ in 1991 at the age of 56. ‘The Shipping News’ won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the National Book Award and the Irish Times International Prize. Her third novel, ‘Accordion Crimes’, was published in 1996. She is also the author of three short-story collections, ‘Heart Songs’ (1994), ‘Close Range’ (1999) and ‘Bad Dirt’ (2004). ‘Brokeback Mountain’ was made into an Oscar-winning film in 2005. ‘Fine Just the Way It Is’, her third collection of Wyoming short stories, was published in 2008.

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ISBN 13	9781857025750
ISBN 10	185702575X
Title	Accordion Crimes
Author	Annie Proulx
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers
Year published	1997-06-05
Number of pages	544
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