The story of Loyal Blood, a man on the run from a crime so terrible that it renders him forever incapable of touching a woman. The odyssey begins on a freezing Vermont hillside in 1944 and propels Blood across the American West for 40 years.

Postcards

PROULX, E. Annie

Flamingo

The Shipping News

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

SIMON AND SCHUSTER

Light wear to cover. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

Simon and Schuster, 1994

Rarely has a literary novel so captured the hearts and minds of readers across America and the world as E. Annie Proulx's "The Shipping News," winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Now we have Proulx's new novel, "Accordion Crimes," a masterpiece of storytelling that spans a century and a continent. "Accordion Crimes" 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 eleven-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.

Accordion Crimes

Scribner

Grapes are among the most desirable and best-known fruits, prized for their beauty, their succulence and varied flavors, their noble metamorphosis into wine, and their more utilitarian roles as sources of fresh juice and tasty jellies. For most growers, the triumph of harvesting fragrant clusters of dusky-bloomed grapes in rose, blue-black, amber, purple, or light red bunches is its own reward--a test of gardening skill. In Great Grapes, you'll learn all you need to know to grow superb grapes, including how to: -Choose the most suitable cultivars for your area -Choose the right site -Prepare the soil -Build trellises -Plant and train the vines -Prune for maximum yield -Propagate new vines -Control pests -Harvest the grapes at the peak of ripeness

Great Grapes: Grow the Best Ever

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gardening & Landscape Design

Storey Publishing, LLC.

More stunning fiction from the pen of Annie Proulx!

ACCORDION CRIMES.

Literary

SCRIBNERS

Product DetailsHardcover: 352 pagesPublisher: Fourth Estate; New Ed edition (1996)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1857025938ISBN-13: 978-1857025934Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 4.1 x 1.2 inchesShipping Weight: 10.4 ouncesAverage Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (563 customer reviews)Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,898,746 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Fourth Estate

Noueds Et Denouement (the Shipping News)

Editions Rivages

Cartoline

Baldini Castoldi Dalai

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