Accordion Crimes
Proulx found fertile, if rocky, soil for her first two novels (PostcardsandThe Shipping News) in the far northeastern corner of North America. InAccordion Crimesshe 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.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.