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The third novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Shipping News', 'Accordion Crimes' spans generations, continents and a century and confirms the hallucinatory power of Proulx's writing. 'Accordion Crimes' is a masterpiece of story-telling that spans a century and a continent. It opens in 1890 in Sicily, when an accordion-maker and his son, carrying little more than his finest button accordion, begin their voyage to the teeming, violent port of New Orleans. Within a year, the accordion-maker is murdered by an anti-Italian lynch mob, but his instrument carries the novel into another community of immigrants: German-Americans founding a new town in South Dakota. Moving from South Dakota to Texas, from Montana to Maine, the nine instantly compelling and intricately connected sections of the novel illuminate the lives of the founders of a nation, descendants of Mexicans, Poles, Germans, Irish, Scots and Franco-Canadians. Through the music of the accordion they express their fantasies, sorrows and exuberance.
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Proulx found fertile, if rocky, soil for her first two novels (Postcards and The Shipping News) in the far northeastern corner of North America. In Accordion Crimes she 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.
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31 人中、28人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
Absurdities, chance circumstances and cruelties of life
2000/12/25
形式:ペーパーバック
This is an ambitious novel of Americana told through the device of an
accordion brought to New Orleans in 1890 by a Sicilian immigrant. The
book is peopled with a huge variety of colorful characters, and the
immigrant experience of Italians, Africans, Germans, Mexicans, French,
Polish and Irish people are depicted with her skillful social
perception, outstanding dialog and overflowing images of the
absurdities, chance circumstances and cruelties of their lives. Each
of her people die grim and violent deaths, and live small and hatefull
lives. There are dozens of characters and not one of them is happy or
finds fulfillment. It is a dark novel, which is grim and depressing
with occasional comic elements which only enhance absurdities of
life.
accordion brought to New Orleans in 1890 by a Sicilian immigrant. The
book is peopled with a huge variety of colorful characters, and the
immigrant experience of Italians, Africans, Germans, Mexicans, French,
Polish and Irish people are depicted with her skillful social
perception, outstanding dialog and overflowing images of the
absurdities, chance circumstances and cruelties of their lives. Each
of her people die grim and violent deaths, and live small and hatefull
lives. There are dozens of characters and not one of them is happy or
finds fulfillment. It is a dark novel, which is grim and depressing
with occasional comic elements which only enhance absurdities of
life.
As I got more deeply into the book, I found it hard to pick up
because I knew I would be bombarded with another sad story of
someone's useless and pain-filled life. And then I couldn't put it
down because, in spite of this, the skillful writing would pull me
along. The stories are loosely strung together, with occasional
flash-forwards for one of the characters, usually describing another
future ugly meaningless death. She's writing about the underclass.
And the reverse side of the American dream. She does it well. So
well, in fact, that her images of lynching, illness, accidents,
abusive relationships and cruelty are not easily forgotten. It is not
a pleasant picture. But yet, it is surprisingly refreshing. Perhaps
because, in spite of her deep and colorful characterizations, the
reader doesn't feel particularly sympathetic to their tragedies and
meaningless lives.
It's a good book, but read it only if you are
unafraid to enter a world of unrelenting pain.
15 人中、15人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
The Reverse Side of the American Dream
2000/1/24
形式:ハードカバー
This is an ambitious novel of Americana told through the device of an accordion brought to New Orleans in 1890 by a Sicilian immigrant.
The book is peopled with a huge variety of colorful characters, and the immigrant experience of Italians, Africans, Germans, Mexicans, French, Polish and Irish people are depicted with her skillful social perception, outstanding dialog and overflowing images of the absurdities, chance circumstances and cruelties of their lives.
Each of her people die grim and violent deaths, and live small and hate-full lives. There are dozens of characters and not one of them is happy or finds fulfillment. It is a dark novel, which is grim and depressing with occasional comic elements which only enhance absurdities of life.
As I got more deeply into the book, I found it hard to pick up because I knew I would be bombarded with another sad story of someone's useless and pain-filled life. And then I couldn't put it down because, in spite of this, the skillful writing would pull me along.
The stories are loosely strung together, with occasional flash-forwards for one of the characters, usually describing another future ugly meaningless death.
She's writing about the underclass. And the reverse side of the American dream. She does it well. So well, in fact, that her images of lynching, illness, accidents, abusive relationships and cruelty are not easily forgotten. It is not a pleasant picture. But yet, it is surprisingly
refreshing. Perhaps because, in spite of her deep and colorful characterizations, the reader doesn't feel particularly sympathetic to their tragedies and meaningless lives.
It's a good book, but read it only if you are unafraid to enter a world of unrelenting pain.
31 人中、27人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
A book of short stories which sum up the American experience
1999/9/27
形式:ペーパーバック
In Accordion Crimes, Proulx wonderfully pulls together a cross-section of America for a hundred years to the present in interwoven short stories about the people whose lives intersect with a handmade accordion brought from Sicily to make its creator's fortune. The stories often end in the death of the current accordion owner which gives us in a dramatic way a sense that our own death will be as distinctively our own and as inevitable as the deaths of her characters. Instead of a great sentimentalized abstraction, Proulx shows that death is as ever-present as life, is the architect of life. In this book, even the accordion dies, slipping gracefully through its ages of usefulness, to disuse, to abandonment. This is a wonderful book and I recommend it to anyone who has been starved for REAL fiction as I have. Proulx is the real thing on a large scale. To those who were depressed by the book, I suggest taking a close look at their own lives because it seems to me they are wasting their time looking for meretricious comforts and have allowed their sensibilities to be lulled by too many soothing professional lies.
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