
Accordion Crimes
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Narrated by:
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Tom Stechschulte
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By:
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Annie Proulx
Rarely has a literary novel so captured the hearts and minds of readers and listeners across America and the world as E. Annie Proulx's The Shipping News, winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Accordion Crimes is another masterpiece of storytelling that spans a century and a continent.
The book 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 11-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.
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Ugly tirades
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I was so torn whether to even finish it because it's also a really fascinating story about a century's worth of the American experience, shining light on immigrant communities which aren't often featured in literature. i got the feeling that the author was trying to out-do Steinbeck in both the highs and lows. I think I'm glad I struggled through, although I may have nightmares from it. And to think I was drawn in by the music connection (which definitely is there, and very well-researched, but ultimately is more of an excuse for telling the other stories).
Brutal - every possible trigger warning
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Awesome
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Annie Proulx can tell a story
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What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?
For this to be a 4 or 5 star experience, it would have had to be a different story. It was dreary, depressing, endlessly gruesome, and just plain awful.What was most disappointing about Annie Proulx’s story?
There was unending pain and misery in this story. There were no characters to root for. Everyone was either awful, crazy, or abused and/or all of the above. As the book progressed, the story rambled more and more until I just wanted to be finished so I could stop reading this horrible book.Which character – as performed by Tom Stechschulte – was your favorite?
Although he did an admirable job with the material, I have to say that none of them were my favorite.If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Accordion Crimes?
All of them.Any additional comments?
I read this for my book club and when we met to discuss it, everyone in the group really could not stand this book. It probably generated the most conversation of any book we have discussed and that's the only good thing I can say about it.This book should be a crime
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So I'm writing this little review to warn others and to praise the narrator. Stechschulte -- if I can spell his name okay -- is bloody marvelous! He gets all the accents, various languages, all ages, both sexes and he even sings. I will watch for him in choosing my future listens.
YEAH, REALLY DEPRESSING!
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Not worth reading
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Just too depressing
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