Annie Proulx, Accordion Crimes

Aliki Varvogli (University of Dundee)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1996

Places

United States (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

Resources

Accordion Crimes (1996) was the novel that followed The Shipping News to great acclaim. Critics had expressed worries that the spectacular success of The Shipping News would be hard to live up to, but Accordion Crimes confirmed Proulx's status as one of the best American writers of her generation. In some ways, this book combines Proulx's interest in both the novel and the story form. It is a novel in the sense that it is a long fictional narrative held together through its thematic unity, but at the same time it resembles a collection of stories in that it is made up of eight separate sections, each introducing new characters, but each also telling more than one story. What unites these fragments is the …

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Citation: Varvogli, Aliki. "Accordion Crimes". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 25 October 2002 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=6861, accessed 26 November 2024.]

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