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Hearing music
McGee, Celia | June 24, 1996 issue

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This article presents information on the book "Accordion Crimes," by E. Annie Proulx. This novel, is a lyrically butt-kicking antidote to the assumption that the accordion's only crime is that it was ever invented in the first place, and a mighty, searing reflection on U.S. ethnic history. Edward Albee's drawing-room tragedy A Delicate Balance, on Broadway, and the art-house hit Fargo both use accordions as condescending sight gags. But Proulx's novel makes it feel as though the accordion is using her, to tell the story of U.S. immigration through music, to write fiction that sheds new light on historical facts and to make up for the reams of contemporary novels that try to act cool about the alleged lower depths.

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ACCORDION Crimes (Book); PROULX, E. Annie; FICTION; ACCORDION music; BOOKS; AUTHORS
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