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Accordion crimes / E. Annie Proulx.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 6376
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Proulx, Annie, author, autographer.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Accordionists--United States--Fiction.
- Accordionists.
- Accordion--History--Fiction.
- Accordion.
- American fiction--20th century.
- American fiction.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Proulx, Annie (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 381, [1] pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- Signed edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Scribner, [1996]
- Summary:
- A tale of immigrants centered on an accordion brought to America in the 1880s. After its Italian owner is murdered, the instrument passes into the hands of other ethnic groups--German, French-Canadian, Mexican, Polish, Norwegian--and the novel describes their ceremonies, dreams and hates. By the author of The Shipping News.
- Notes:
- "No. [blank],[blank] of 2,500"--Limitation statement.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy is number 1410 (the copy number supplied in manuscript) of a limited edition of 2500 copies signed by the author. See limitation statement.
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0684833115
- 9780684833118
- OCLC:
- 1322473465
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